The Complete Curious Mr Tarrant

"Curiouser and curiouser"!

Twelve stories that deal with impossible and fantastical crimes ranging from haunted boats, headless corpses, vanishing harps, ancient objects with weird curses to locked room mysteries are what primarily interest amateur sleuth Trevis Tarrant, ably assisted by his manservant, Katoh, who is actually a Japanese spy. Tarrant's Watsonian narrator is Jerry Phelan, a young man about town in love with Valerie, who along with Jerry's smarter sister, Mary give the book a lighter almost Wodehousian touch.

"The most imaginative detective stories of our times" Ellery Queen