Bat Wing Book

#94 - 2010

"OFTEN enough my memory has recaptured that moment in Paul Harley's office, when Harley, myself, and the tall Spaniard stood looking down at the bat wing lying upon the blotting pad."

Sax Rohmer, better known as the creator of Fu Manchu, has a cracking good yarn in this tale of the American detective who is asked to unravel a voodoo mystery threatening Colonel Menendez. Traveling to Menendez's home in England, the plot just keeps getting thicker as we meet the members of his household, suspicious neighbors, and see signs of the bat everywhere we turn.

I began listening to this on LibriVox last summer and dropped it when I got too busy. I've picked it up again, free, from Amazon on the Kindle and am having a jolly good time finishing it up.

Update: Finished it up as it grabbed me by the throat in the end of the investigation. I actually had figured out who a main player was, but the author completely had me fooled about the main thrust of the crime. Really a great book and I'll be reading the sequel soon.