Summary:

A man murdered -- shot through the heart! In the quiet cathedral city
of Beorminster, so unusual an event can only bring on dizzying
excitement. Amateur detectives by the dozen gather on street corners
to thrash out the problem -- and in public-houses, where they develop
their most intricate theories over their beer. But now there appears
in Beorminster the strangest figure: an elderly, weather-beaten man
with the quick, alert eye of a fowl. For all he looks like a sailor,
he calls himself a missionary -- saying he has labored these many
years in the Lord's vineyard of the South Seas, and has returned to
England for "a smack of civilization." He has the hoarse voice of a
mariner accustomed to out-roar storms, but his conversation is oddly
free of the colorful oaths of the nautical man. His name is Ben
Baltic -- and his entrance marks the reader's first acquaintance with
the most interesting and colorful of detectives created by Fergus
Hume (1859-1932), author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and The
Secret Passage.

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Dewey Class: 813 -- Fiction

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.0"x9.0"x0.8"; 1.2 lb; 268 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2009-01-01

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