Les aventures d'un policier new-yorkais, Ebenezer Cryce, quiquagénaire corpulent et sympathique. Dans cette enquête, il est secondé par Amélia Butterworthe, une vieille fille extrêmement fureteuse.
Think of classic detectives and you immediately think of Sherlock Holmes but this story, written in 1878, predated him by a good ten years and was even a best-seller back then, not an unknown work. Ms Green is considered the mother of the detective novel and is renowned for being legally accurate...