Past midnight, a bedside telephone jolts Dr. Trowbridge awake - and by breakfast the papers are screaming about a girl found dead on the moonlit golf links. Enter Jules de Grandin: a compact, mustachioed whirlwind of charm, science, and razor-edged intuition, who coolly suggests the killer may not be entirely... human. Claw-raked shoulders, a witness babbling about an “ape-thing” in evening dress, and a window-climbing intruder turn a genteel wedding week into a breathless chase through shadowed lanes and suspicious laboratories.

Seabury Quinn mixes drawing-room sleuthing with pulpy dread - the kind where a polite bow can hide a loaded question and every clue points somewhere stranger. Expect brisk banter, moonlit peril, and that delicious moment when the case tilts from improbable to inevitable. Come for the mystery; stay for de Grandin’s audacity - and the instant the night air shifts and everything you thought you knew starts to jump.


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