So wrote Ellery Queen about The Curious Mr. Tarrant, an extraordinary collection of detective stories by Charles Daly King (1895-1963). The cases solved by Trevis Tarrant, during the early 1930's, assisted by his manservant (who is in actuality a Japanese spy) include locked rooms, headless corpses, a vanishing harp, and newly built but haunted house, and other bizarre events.
With the encouragement of Ellery Queen, King wrote four additional stories about Mr. Tarrant, some of them becoming "curiouser and curiouser." They include the case of a Hollywood star who disappears from a locked suite of rooms, in a house surrounded by detectives, and the murder solved only because of the absence of a fish. These additional stories along with the original eight tales are included in The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant. Introduction by Edward D. Hoch
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Hardback Editions
February 2003 : Hardback
| Title: The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant (Crippen & Landru Lost Classics) Author(s): C. Daly King, Edward D. Hoch ISBN: 1-932009-04-3 / 9781932009040 (USA edition) Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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July 2003 : Paperback
 | Title: The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant Author(s): C. Daly King, Edward D. Hoch ISBN: 1-932009-05-1 / 9781932009057 (USA edition) Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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