The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare and Sergeant Andrew Mbutu in

and Sergeant Andrew Mbutu in modern Africa

The book concludes with "The Man Who Held Up the Roof

As the Golden Age of Mystery began to flourish

What is a locked room mystery

Chin is not afraid to dig deep into New York's underbelly in pursuit of justice

The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare and Sergeant Andrew Mbutu inONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES! So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898 1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as The Black Monk; and he faced (and solved) some of most bizarre cases ever to confront a sleuth a bullet fired three