And What Have You Got At The End Of The Day?
Shadow of a Broken Man (Mongo, volume 1)
By George C. Chesbro
14 Jan, 2018
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
1977’s Shadow of a Broken Man is the first volume in George C. Chesbro’s long-running Mongo series. The Mongo series lives in the intersection of mundane detective fiction and outright science fiction. Or at least I think it does.
Former circus tumbler turned black belt martial artist turned academic, criminology professor Dr. Robert “Mongo the Magnificent” Fredrickson has a minor side-line as a private detective. His cases are often peculiar, as if people with normal cases don’t seek out New York’s only dwarf detective. Lookism, I suppose.
His new case seems pretty straightforward: find out how a dead man managed to design a new building.