Cardula and the Locked Rooms Howard Macy and his adopted son Faisal

and his adopted son Faisal whom he found on the streets of Baghdad are superlatively constructed exercises in detection

and one of them is published here for the first time

The cases Appleby investigates are often convoluted but with a touch of the fantastic

John Dickson Carr made his reputation through the art of bafflement

As Doug Greene writes

Cardula and the Locked Rooms Howard Macy and his adopted son FaisalIn the dispatch box of Crippen & Landru, we keep a list of lost classics and cozy mysteries our readers would like to see. Weve had many requests for the works of Jack Ritchie, a mystery writer from the last century, who wowed people with his imagination and prose. While many of his stories were available in Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine, readers would have to find and read nine different issues to enjoy all of the exploits of Cardula. Crippen &