Any amateur can do away with family. But it takes a professional to kill an almost perfect stranger. Fiendishly convoluted and often grotesquely funny, this is a tale of geometrically multiplying... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Quiet reclusive printer Darius Conn is the last person anyone would suspect of being a murderer. He is mild mannered, private, and respectable. However, as usual in a Fredric Brown noir mystery novel, things aren't always what they seem. Conn has some murderous secrets. For one thing he has gotten away with the murder of his wife, and life looks good from this point on. The formerly honest businessman has turned to counterfeiting, but a couple of mistakes on his part lead to the necessity for another murder, then another...One of Brown's most thrilling novels, in my opinion. Not every thing Brown wrote was great, but at his best none could match him. This is one of his best.Five Stars.
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