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Blind Man's Bluff (American Mystery Classics) by Baynard Kendrick
Blind Man's Bluff (American Mystery Classics) by Baynard Kendrick
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, Captain Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and, with the help of his two German Shepherds and his driver, Cappo, became one of the most successful private investigators in New York City -- but his newest case is baffling enough to push his deductive powers to their limits.
When the blind president of the recently bankrupted Miners Title and Trust bank plummets eight stories to his death in the building's lobby, the man's son, Seth, is found drunk at the scene of the crime, making him the prime suspect, and the only other witnesses are the security guard and Blake's estranged wife, who were both on the first floor at the time of the deadly plunge. Maclain doesn't think the banker's death was a suicide or an accident, but neither does he believe that Seth is guilty. He suspects that someone else was in the building -- and when more murders follow, it becomes clear that the villain is still at large.
Reissued for the first time in over half a century, Blind Man's Bluff is a puzzling mystery set in 1940s New York, solved by one of crime fiction's earliest disabled detectives.
Baynard Kendrick (1894 - 1977) was one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, later named a Grand Master by the organization.
PENZLER PUBLICATIONS, SOFTCOVER, 1943, 2023
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.