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A puzzle for fools / Patrick Quentin ; introduction by Otto Penzler.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.H2895 P89 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quentin, Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Quentin, Patrick. Peter Duluth mystery
- Peter Duluth mystery
- American mystery classics
- Otto Penzler presents American mystery classics
- Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library
- Otto Penzler presents--
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sanatoriums.
- Duluth, Peter (Fictitious character).
- Duluth, Peter (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Private investigators--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Sanatoriums--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 237 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penzler Publishers, 2019.
- Summary:
- Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enters a sanitarium, hoping to break his dependence on drink - but the institution doesn't quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange, malevolent occurrences plague the hospital. Among other inexplicable events, Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: "There will be a murder." It soon becomes clear that homicidal maniac is on the loose and, with a staff every bit as erratic as its idiosyncratic patients, it seems everyone is a suspect - even Duluth's new romantic interest, Iris Pattison. Charged by the baffled head of the ward with solving the crimes, it's up to Peter to clear her name before the killer strikes again.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1936 by Patrick Quentin, renewed. Introduction copyright by Otto Penzler" -- title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781613161258
- 1613161255
- 9781613161241
- 1613161247
- OCLC:
- 1088898724
- Publisher Number:
- 99980854183
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