Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter. But he discovers that there...
Un crime, un policier-enquêteur et pour finir, un coupable. Classique – mieux – historique, puisque ce roman policier date de la fin du Second Empire; mais aussi un polar, un vrai. Méchinet, dans la grande lignée des Sherlock...