Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

A college professor who doubles as a master detective applies close observation and deductive imagination to a series of self-contained cases, each presented as a chapter. The adventures encompass burglaries, disappearances, thefts of jewels and gold, contested wills, suspicious deaths and baffling misdirections. Small physical clues—counters, cigarette ends, peculiar boxes—and careful surveillance prompt methodical reconstructions, confrontations and traps. The narrative balances puzzle-solving technique with domestic and social settings, showing how patient inference, occasional danger and the detective's unconventional reasoning reveal surprising links, motives and resolutions across a variety of seemingly unrelated mysteries.