Trade paperback. A 1937 classic from Australia's Max Afford (1906-1954) about a country manor where every member of the family has a mannikin that looks like him. When one turns up, the person dies, horribly.
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By Fender Tucker
Oct 15, 2009
"Max Afford is Damned Hard to Find" DEATH'S MANNIKINS is my favorite Max Afford book. I've now read four of them -- including the upcoming THE DEAD ARE BLIND soon to be released by Ramble House -- and the blend of impossible, sealed room puzzles, complete with diagrams and maps, is as charming as I imagine its downunder country manor setting is. But it's almost impossible to find out much about Afford and his books. There's a web site of Australian authors but the bibliography is incomplete and doesn't list all his mysteries. So even though I have devoured every word of the four books I've read (so far) I still do not know in what year THE DEAD ARE BLIND was published. If a mysterious plot, and an equally mysterious author, is your cuppa kangaroo tea, then I highly recommend DEATH'S MANNIKINS and the other three Jeffery Blackburn mysteries from Ramble House. Don't you just love the way he spells MANNIKINS?
