Thirteen baffling mysteries in the Golden Age style Travel back in time to England in the 1920s, where the crimes are unusual, if not impossible... University College student Owen Barham is not a policeman or an official detective, but he somehow manages to find himself entangled in one puzzle after another. In the tradition of G.K. Chesterton and John Dickson Carr, the crimes he investigates include men vanishing from behind closed doors and in snow-covered country lanes, men struck dead while apparently alone, documents stolen despite every precaution, and other bizarre and unexplainable incidents. But when no one else can explain the unexplainable, one young man can...
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