Isn\'t it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth? Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new.
Anthony Berkeley. in that, alas , almost extinct genre, the real detective story, with Ludovic Travers in his very best form. . .
Yet another sound piece of work .
This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
The Case of the Burnt Bohemian was originally published in 1953.
Christopher Bush is a proven master of the true detective story, and in this one he is at his urbanely intriguing and ingenious best.
It looks like a routine matter till suddenly the long arm of coincidence stretches out and ties the Cases of the Nervous Psychiatrist and the Burnt Bohemian into one knot of Gordian complexity.
Would he please come to a flat in Chelsea where an artist has just been stabbed, and an attempt made to destroy evidence by burning the body.
This time it is a summons from George Wharton of Scotland Yard.
An appointment is made for the following day, but Travers has barely completed a few discreet enquiries concerning his new client when he receives another call.
Isn\'t it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth? Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new
