The Three Taps

A suspicious death, a locked room, and a trio of turned gas taps set the stage for The Three Taps, a witty and intricately constructed mystery by Ronald A. Knox, one of the great minds behind the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. When the wealthy and eccentric Hon. S. Pulteney disappears and is later found dead in a room where all three gas taps have been mysteriously opened, insurance investigator Miles Bredon is called in to determine: was it suicide—or something more sinister?

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