Ask the Right Question David Mitchell What is Topcliffe's interest in

What is Topcliffe's interest in a housemaid

Bats hang in the eaves of the church and herons stand sentry in the river

Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London

a journalist selling true-life stories to a magazine

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Ask the Right Question David Mitchell What is Topcliffe's interest inMeet Albert Samson a detective in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. But Samson's no hard boiled clone. For one thing, he doesn't even own a gun. For another, he works in Indianapolis, the apparently unglamorous Midwestern city where he grew up. But the city and its problems are not the stuff of stereotypes. And Samson uses his wits and his contacts to solve his clients'