Stanley Hastings client is lying to him. But that's a mere annoyance. The crooked cop framing him for three murders is a problem.
"What Mr. Hall does to the private-eye formula is very funny, but it is not frivolous. His puzzles, for all their manic nonsense, are fiendish constructions of sound logic."
-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"As usual, Hall, like Rumplestiltskin, takes slender material that would serve another writer for a middling short story and spins a gossamer web of riddles by turns puzzling, suspenseful, and hilarious."
-Kirkus
"Hall weaves a tale worth of a Golden Age writer, with as many puzzles in one book as one is likely to find in four or five modern mysteries."
-Deadly Pleasures
"Fiendishly funny ... Smart dialogue, clever plotting, and a perfectly executed reverse scam by Hastings result in sparkling entertainment."
-Publishers Weekly
