About the book: 2005 / Sometimes a criminal has many faces, which is why the investigation turns out to be extremely confusing and beyond the capabilities of ordinary guardians of the law. It is to such cases that the mysterious murders solved by the amateur detective and writer E. Queen belong, which he talks about in his novels “The Mystery of the American Pistol” and “Halfway House” and which earned him fame as “a logical follower of Sherlock Holmes” and “a symbol of everything unusual in the American detective genre».