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"Twelve mysteries, dozens of clues, and two detectives matching wits Detective Jack Barnes is good at his job-no nonsense and thorough, his dogged nature makes him the best at what he does. Mr. Robert Leroy Mitchel is entirely different: a gentleman and an amateur sleuth, Mitchel is confident i...

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Main Author: Ottolengui, Rodrigues.
Other Authors: Klinger, Leslie S.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Naperville, IL : Poisoned Pen Press, 2020.
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Summary: "Twelve mysteries, dozens of clues, and two detectives matching wits Detective Jack Barnes is good at his job-no nonsense and thorough, his dogged nature makes him the best at what he does. Mr. Robert Leroy Mitchel is entirely different: a gentleman and an amateur sleuth, Mitchel is confident in his ability to find answers where the professionals cannot. But by choice or circumstance the two are thrown together in pursuit of the truth. Sometimes partners, often competitors, these dueling detectives tackle a slew of unsolvable cases in Gilded Age New York: a body washed up in the river after its cremation, the disappearance of a priceless emerald that leaves a trail of death in its wake, and an IOU demanding a man's life, to name a few"--
Physical Description: 302 pages
ISBN: 9781464214875
1464214875
Author Notes: RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI was the leading dental editor of the early 20th century, a successful novelist, and a respected entomologist in addition to being a pioneering orthodontist and the father of forensic dentistry. He wrote six mystery novels, and was called "the dental counterpart...of England's Dr. Conan Doyle" by the Saturday Review of Literature .