The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare were also accomplished mystery writers

were also accomplished mystery writers

Chin is not afraid to dig deep into New York's underbelly in pursuit of justice

especially in his discussion of the plight of African-Americans in the South

Tey's earliest published writing

and sometimes set in the mountains of Italy or southern France

The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare were also accomplished mystery writersONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES! So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898 1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as The Black Monk; and he faced (and solved) some of most bizarre cases ever to confront a sleuth a bullet fired three