The Pointing Man – Marjorie Douie – 1920

Description: This is a mystery story, and a curiously original one. A young lad mysteriously disappears from his employer’s curio shop in a Burmese bazaar. The Eastern atmosphere all through the book is capital, and unusually well done. The disappearance is reported to the local English police, whose head, Hartley, makes a few casual inquiries,…