The Man from Tibet: A Theocritus Lucius Westborough Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Clason, Clyde B.

Schantz, Enid

Contemporary

Rue Morgue

When his chryseldephantine statute of the lady of the Golden Serpents is stolen, a department store magnate asks the help of Theocritus Lucius Westborough, professor of Roman history, to help get it back. The magnate has recreated the Minoan palace of Knossos on an island off the coast of California and any number of his relatives or guests would have reason to steal the priceless relic. First published in 1939.

Murder Gone Minoan

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

First published in 1941, this is the last book to feature Prof. Theoritus Lucious Westborough, a scholar specializing in Roman history. It's another locked room case involving rare jade.

Green Shiver

The elderly Roman historian, Prof. Theocritius Lucius Westborough is in his element when a wealthy Chicago collector of antigue weapons is done in with a medieval halberd. Add a locked-and-guarded room surrounded by unmarked snow from which a man disappears plus a cryptogram diary and you've got a real Golden Age puzzler. First published in 1939.

Dragon's Cave

In the tradition of Holmes and Poirot comes another erstwhile professor turned detective create by Clyde B. Clason. Here is a long, full-bodied, and modern mystery story, cleverly plotted, with excellent characters and genuine suspense. The final curtain will come as a surprise to all.\nAll about the murder of the porcine Mr. Swink and the mystifying events that followed-and introducing Theocritus Lucius Westborough, genial and mild-mannered little history professor, with the instincts of a ferret and the brain of a Holmes.\nSwink's murder, in his room at the Hotel Equable, involved a varied group of people: a night clerk, an evil-tongued gossip, two traveling salesmen, a "hotel widow," a man who was anything but what he said he was, a commercial artist and his wife, and a hotel dick with a penchant for ripping up mattresses.\nWith the police completely baffled, Theocritus gets together this cast of characters and stages a play whose main "props" consist of a hairpin, a cigarette lighter, a drunk's visit to the wrong room, a child's chemical set, a moving picture-Three Men and a Cobra-Detective Lieutenant Mack's aunt Harriet from Niles, Michigan, and a girl who married at noon and was killed at three o'clock in an automobile accident with another man.

The Fifth Tumbler

Chosho Publishing