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A Puzzle for Fools (American Mystery Classics) by Patrick QuentinBroadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years later, he enters a sanitarium in an effort to dry out -- but the institution doesn't quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange, malevolent occurrences plague the hospital, and among other inexplicable events, Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: "There will be murder." When that premonition comes true, it's up to Duluth, surrounded by a staff every bit as suspicious as its idiosyncratic patients, to solve the crimes before the killer strikes again.
A Puzzle for Fools is the atmospheric and complex mystery that first introduced Peter Duluth; the character and his love interest Iris went on to star in eight more novels, two of which were adapted for film.
Patrick Quentin is one of the pseudonyms of Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912 - 1987), who collaborated with several other authors on the books written as Quentin, Q.… Read More
