Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Funeral in the Fog by Edward D. Hoch. Crippen & Landru, $22 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-936363-48-3
Bookshop The 16 ingenious stories in this memorable collection from MWA Grand Master Hoch (1930â2008) feature the colorful and enigmatic Simon Ark, who claims âto have traveled the earth for close to 2000 years in search of Satan.â Despite that supernatural mission, Ark is adept at coming up with rational solutions to all manner of impossibilities. Along with the unnamed narrator, an editor at a New York publishing house, Ark brings his intellect to bear on conundrums such as how a rock star can disappear from a glass elevator and how a knife that vanished in midair a cen...
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