The Mandarin’s Fan by Fergus Hume

Description

Hume understands that the reader’s pleasure lies in the trail, and he lays it cleverly: a fashionable actress, an obscure Chinatown dealer, a doctor with secrets, and a fan whose reappearance changes every conclusion. The plotting is honest, the solutions are lettered out fairly, and the pace never flags.

The novel is a fine specimen of Hume’s later detective work, tighter and grimmer than his famous debut, with all the local color of that London underbelly he knew so well.

Why readers still come back to it

• From the author of the legendary Mystery of a Hansom Cab.
• A fair-play puzzle built around a haunting clue.
• Genuine Victorian detective atmosphere and pace.

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