Robert Kintyre, a history scholar and swordsman, is fencing with his friend the detective Trygve Yamamura in a Berkeley garden when murder enters their circle. Personal letters, a dead man’s business past and a tangle of family rivalries draw Kintyre into an investigation that tests his wits as well as his skill with a sabre.
A literate 1960 mystery from one of the great names in science fiction, for readers who like scholarly sleuths. Download the free EPUB.