Author: | Harry Stephen Keeler | ISBN: | 9781479449057 |
Publisher: | Wildside Press LLC | Publication: | January 26, 2019 |
Imprint: | Wildside Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Harry Stephen Keeler |
ISBN: | 9781479449057 |
Publisher: | Wildside Press LLC |
Publication: | January 26, 2019 |
Imprint: | Wildside Press |
Language: | English |
The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request?
The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request?