The No. 2 Global Detective (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
2 Global Detective 6 A challenge … ‘Poor Claire,’ said the Dean. ‘Although I can’t say it comes as much of a surprise.’ ‘An assegai,’ Tom said, nearly reaching out to touch the shaft of the spear. ‘Mmm,’ said the Dean. ‘No, gentlemen, not an assegai, I think.’ It was a thin voice that came from behind their shoulders. They both turned quickly. A man stood at the door of the office clutching a pile of books. He was wearing a heavy tweed cape (what is it about amateur detectives and tweed, wondered Tom) and his beak-nosed face was as thin as a blade. His shoulders were the narrowest Tom had ever seen, his head shaped like a marrow standing on end and his hair slicked down on either side, as if with Dickensian bear’s grease. He was pure intellect; a man of the ratiocinative school, ventured Tom absently. ‘Oh, God. Professor Wikipedia,’ muttered the Dean, rolling his eyes, but yielding some authority to the new arrival. ‘What is it, then?’ ‘Or, rather, it is an assegai,’ answered the strange man, ‘but not what this young man means by the term.’ The Dean was in no mood to make introductions.
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