Böcker av Hoppenstand

This second collection of defective detective stories features some of the best of the period, including Russell Gray s gimpy hero Ben Bryn, Edith and Ejler Jacobson s hemophiliac gum-shoe Nat Perry, John Kobler s glaucomatous troubleshooter Peter Quest, and Leon Byrne s deaf detective Dan Holden."

The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.