The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant

C. Daly King. Crippen & Landru Publishers, $42 (172pp) ISBN 978-1-932009-04-0

As the latest entry in their Lost Classics series, Crippen & Landru offers The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant, by C. Daly King (1895-1963). Edward D. Hoch provides an introduction to this collection of 12 stories, mostly locked-room mysteries written in the 1930s.

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