The long legs of the law George Barr McCutcheon, the author of this special Leonaur two-in-one edition of the Anderson Crow stories, is perhaps better known to many as the writer of 'Brewster's Millions,' the farcical yarn of a hapless man's attempts to send spend millions of dollars so that he might inherit millions more. McCutcheon was also well regarded for his 'Graustark' series of novels based in a fictional central European country and written in the spirit of 'The Prisoner of Zenda.' Anderson Crow, the central character in this book, can be compared-in his own way-to Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's famous hussar, Brigadier Gerard. In these stories, McCutcheon has created gentle investigative fiction combined with a touch of humour and the stories are as much a good natured insight into small town American life at the time of the First World War as they are stories of detection. The deputy marshal of rural Tinkletown is essentially a buffoon who has a high opinion himself and...

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