The narrator opens in Singapore, a port where half the tongues of the world can be heard in an hour’s walk, and where the threads of an intricate crime are first spun. The trail runs back to England, to the sinister partners Kitwater and Codd and to the watchful Hayle, as a detective tries to untangle a plot whose motives he only gradually understands.
A brisk 1901 mystery from the Australian-born author of the Dr Nikola thrillers, full of colonial atmosphere. Download the free EPUB.