Murder on the Midway: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Human Encyclopedia, Volume 1

by Frank Gruber

Traveling encyclopedia salesman Oliver Quade may be the most unlikely detective to appear in the pages of the pulp magazines of the 1930s. Known for marveling crowds by reciting the memorized contents of The Compendium of Human Knowledge, Quade-known better as The Human Encyclopedia-has a habit of letting this knowledge lead him into the middle of one murder investigation after another.

Collected for the first time are the first half of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618276603
• ISBN13: 9781618276605
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Black Mask
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"