Sir Clinton Driffield is a respected police professional assigned the task of solving a convoluted crime of murder. The case involves a coy temptress, her husband, a secret admirer and a young man with a romantic interest in the temptress. Sir...
Here from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was...
Everybody knows revenge is sweet. Mike Black is back and he wants revenge when he realizes that more of his people were involved in the latest plot to kill him. And then there’s Jada West. She’s got promises of her own. When Rain Robinson hears...
Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped...