THE BRASS RING

by Lewis Padgett ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 26, 1946

A concentrated combination of emotional maladjustments and misdemeanours as Seth Colman, private detective and through with a profession he can't take, is tricked into another case by his excitement-loving Eve, and asked to find Bruce Farr, a catatonic schizophrenic, believed responsible for the murder of his doctor, Bellman. With Bedarian, his assistant whose extrasensory perceptions for crime remain undimmed by alcohol, Seth proceeds through wine and women to the dead doctor's palmitching practitioneering, to blackmail and a dead girl's pregnancy, to the eventual exoneration of the insane boy and the apprension of the killer. Ironic, laconic, this does very well for harsher tastes.

Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION