Six strange cases
By: Rafe McGregor
Series: Linford western library
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444805727
Subjects: Large type books; English Detective and mystery stories
Description: "Private investigator Titus Farrow is doomed by an encounter with the Chambers Scroll; Roderick Langham solves the mystery of the 'Demeter' from his armchair by the sea; a failed author goes in search of the barghest for inspiration; a missing person case turns even nastier than blackmail; Sweeney Todd meets his match. These stories make a gripping journey through 'The King in Yellow', 'Dracula', 'Sweeney Todd', and the noir fiction of the pulp era."--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: The short spoon; title: The tired captain; title: Meet El Presidente; title: The month of the wolf; title: Blue mail; title: The facts of the demon barber's demise.