by Patrick Quentin · Diogenes · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783257216905
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«Puzzle für Spinner» is the mystery novel by Patrick Quentin, published by Diogenes in paperback (205 pages, in German).
Broadway producer Peter Duluth checks into a sanatorium to give up drinking, but instead of the expected rest he finds strange occurrences and the threat of murder. To prevent suspicion from falling on someone close to him, he must uncover the culprit among patients and staff.
This edition is the translation of «A Puzzle for Fools», the first installment in the Peter Duluth Mystery series, originally published in 1936.
For readers with German proficiency who enjoy classic golden age mystery.
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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Richard Wilson Webb, Martha Mott Kelley and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book Puzzle for Pilgrims won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
