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“Curiouser and curiouser”!
Twelve stories that deal with impossible and fantastical crimes – ranging from haunted boats, headless corpses, vanishing harps, ancient objects with weird curses to locked room mysteries – are what primarily interest amateur sleuth Trevis Tarrant, ably assisted by his manservant, Katoh, who is actually a Japanese spy. Tarrant’s Watsonian narrator is Jerry Phelan, a young man about town in love with Valerie, who along with Jerry’s smarter sister, Mary – give the book a lighter almost Wodehousian touch.
“The most imaginative detective stories of our times” – Ellery Queen
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