In The Castle Murders Louis Pean travels to Quebec with his two golden retrievers, Damon and Pythias, to research a novel on the French and Indian War. He visits an ancient castle on an island in the middle of the St.Lawrence River, accessible only by small plane in the late fall and winter months, and becomes involved in a murder mystery with links to the Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the poet T.S. Eliot, and a famous American university.
In The Castle Murders Louis Pean travels to Quebec with his two golden retrievers, Damon and Pythias, to research a novel on the French and Indian War...
A sacked hedge fund manager has no trouble in making the transition to holding up banks in the short novel that opens this collection. It is followed by novellas about vanishing people in a hospital, a disappearing priest in a church, mad inventors who solve obesity and fuel problems at the same time, two crooks and a cat in a haunted house, a Texan who brings new insights into northern politics, and a man who finds a vital piece of his anatomy atop the hat of a striking blond entering St. Patrick's Cathedral to see the Pope.
A sacked hedge fund manager has no trouble in making the transition to holding up banks in the short novel that opens this collection. It is followed ...