


A locked room, a vanished clue, a wry smile behind the magnifying glass-here, the boundaries of logic and imagination blur in the shadows of Edwardian London. Within these pages, the golden age of detective fiction springs to life with wit and suspense, inviting readers to savour...

Twenty-one stories, written across thirty years and gathered by an author who preferred to remain a rumour. A market trader in old China talks his way out of a death sentence. A blind investigator hunts a traitor through wartime London on the evidence of a scent and a sound...

Twenty-one stories, written across thirty years and gathered by an author who preferred to remain a rumour. A market trader in old China talks his way out of a death sentence. A blind investigator hunts a traitor through wartime London on the evidence of a scent and a sound...