![]() ![]() You must retain a sense of intellectual distance.” It’s hard to let oneself become emotionally involved in a case like that. These were the “impossible crimes” – typically high-society affairs, where men in locked rooms were killed under impractical circumstances, or where, for example, a body was found strangled in a snowy field, with only a single set of footprints trailing backward from the corpse. But increasingly over the last few years, (Flint) had been conscious of a burgeoning sub-genre of crime, which had rolled over the city like fog. Usually the culprit is whoever was closest to the victim. ![]() “ Most murders are sordid back-street affairs, no mystery or magic to them. Anselm Rees, found with his throat slit behind the locked doors and windows of his private study: But why did people seek comfort in stories of wealthy uncles found bashed over the head or a succession of blondes getting their throats slit in the murky alleys of the City? Tom Mead, in his first novel, Death and the Conjuror, lays it out pretty clearly for all of us when his inspecteur de l’histoire, George Flint, confronts the body of Dr. ![]()
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