The Era of Wonderful Nonsense was over, replaced by the grimmer, grittier world of the Great Depression. No more raccoon coats, jazz babies, or bathtub gin. But millionaire autodidact polymath Akhenaton Beelzebub Chase and his brilliant, lissome associate Claire Delacroix, live on comfortably in their neo-Tudor mansion in the hills above Berkeley, California. They practice duets on priceless classical instruments, dine on haute cuisine and sip choice vintage wines.But their luxuriant lives are interrupted when Captain Cleland Baxter, head of the San Francisco Police Department's detective bureau, calls on them to solve baffling cases. They must unravel the mysteries of a famous Hungarian actor found dead in his dressing room, two tiny puncture wounds in his neck . . . a deep-water explorer who disappears from his diving suit forty feet beneath the surface of Monterey Bay . . . a test pilot who flies an experimental fighter plane into a cloud with a passenger on board and emerges seconds later, alone.Chase and Delacroix are never at a loss in unraveling a puzzle, ever ready to pursue the killer in their powerful motor launch, Hispano Suiza limousine, or Cierva gyroplane.It's the world of the 1930's, a milieu reminiscent of the surroundings of Philo Vance, young Ellery Queen, and other amateur sleuths of their bygone era. The author plays fair with the reader, providing every clue needed to solve each case before its solution is revealed.==========Richard A. Lupoff is the author of many books including the Hobart Lindsey Marvia Plum mysteries, Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft, The Universal Holmes, and The Great American Paperback.

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