Название: The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet
Автор: Harry Stephen Keeler
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
Серия: Hong Lei Chung
isbn: 9781479449057
isbn: 0
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?