Dust jacket by Gavin L. O'Keefe
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF ROWLAND HERN
Nicholas Olde
Rowland Hern is not your ordinary 1928 sleuth. He eschews the booze and dames and instead roams his world looking for an armadillo—or a sword swallower—or a town that never laughs. And don’t expect Rowland to let you in on what he’s doing—until the last paragraph! The fifteen episodes in this collection are forgotten “impossible” gems that rival those of John Dickson Carr or Robert Adey. The story-telling is vintage Golden Age but the Harry Stephen Keeler-like plots stretch the genre to its limits. An introduction by John Norris lays the foundation for this republication being one of the most intriguing and deserved revivals of the year. $18