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The Copper House: A Detective Story
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781667663005
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Sep 21 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A strange house of metal stands at the center of a city rumor- watched by neighbors, whispered about in columns, and suddenly tied to a violent death. A reporter with a knack for puzzles follows the trail from a routine inquiry to a tight coil of contradictions: footprints that lead nowhere, alibis that fit too neatly, and a dwelling whose very walls seem designed to hide movement and sound. Each clue appears solid until tested, then turns on itself, pointing to locked doors, misread timings, and one carefully staged deception.
The investigation unfolds like a newsroom chase: interviews, late editions, and hurried visits to offices, stairwells, and back streets. The suspects span a tight circle-tenants, neighbors, and associates with overlapping motives-yet every timetable has gaps that resist ordinary explanation. As the inquiry tightens, the case shifts from gathering facts to reading behavior: who benefits from the house's peculiar construction, who repeats the same detail a little too often, and who relies on darkness and silence to move unseen.
When the trap is finally set, it hinges on patient observation and a simple test that a guilty mind cannot pass. The result is a clean, reasoned solution-no supernatural turns, only human craft-delivered with the steady pace and fair-play logic of classic detection.
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