The Matter of the Duct Tape Tuxedo: And Other Impossible Crime Short Stories

By Steve Levi

Captain Heinz Noonan, “Master of the Impossible Crime,” is called upon to solve the most puzzling of riddles. If it's odd, you call Noonan. Why, for instance, would someone steal 200 garden gnomes and then leave them in a pattern across a city? Better yet, how can air cargo increase in weight as it flies and how can a century old Tong highbinder warrior appear in a locked warehouse and then disappear in a cloud of smoke? And why would anyone want to steal anything from a garbage dump? See if you can solve these unusual mysteries faster than the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department. Oh, then there is the theft of 8,000 gallons of water, a reappearing coelacanth, the theft of some Komodo dragon trousers and, of course, a missing duct tape tuxedo. The perfect Who dun what for your bookshelf and enjoyment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publication Consultants
• Release date: Jun 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781594338632

Steve Levi

Steve Levi has spent more than 40 years researching and writing about Alaska's history. He specializes in the ground-level approach to events. His book Bonfire Saloon is a saloon floor-level book of authentic Alaska Gold Rush characters in a Nome saloon on March 3, 1903. His book, The Human Face of the Alaska Gold Rush, is a compendium of people and events that are usually left out of scholarly books. He is also a scholar on the forgotten decade, 1910 to 1920, the most violent era in American history, which included four major bombings, widespread terrorist activity, and the birth of the labor movement. A Rat's Nest of Rails focuses on how the construction of the Alaska Railroad survived the era – and thrived!

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