Murder by the Book Ali Smith capable of vertiginous feats of

capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation

there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now

Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion

The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce is a dazzling

Scottish crime fiction at its very best

Murder by the Book Ali Smith capable of vertiginous feats ofIt wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So the genius sleuth directs his sidekick to set a trap . . . and discovers that the truth is far stranger and far bloodier than fiction.