Death Knell
Subtitle: A Duncan Maclain Mystery
Publisher: Books Inc., distributed by William Morrow and Company
Published: 1945
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Attitudes towards Disabilities; Recreational Reading
Description: His blind detective, Captain Duncan Maclain, whose dogs, Schnucke and Dreist, were named by Jack Humphries of the Seeing Eye home, has received unreserved praise both from reviewers and from those keenest critics of all, blind readers.  The character of Maclain was based on a youthful blind soldier in St. Dunstan's Home in London during the last war, who by touching the emblems on Kendrick's uniform, traced four years of Kendrick's Army career.  His accurate deductions made an impression that stuck for fifteen years and developed into one of the most unusual sleuths in fiction.