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The Prisoner in the Opal by A.E.W. Mason

kjcharles's review

Detective novel with occult elements. They mystery is good, the occult elements genuinely spooky and some of the plotting very ingenious. Unfortunately, the detectives are high-whimsy--prissy older man wrong about everything and comedy French detective who keeps getting idioms wrong--and the narrative beats the joke to death by about ch3 but *does not stop*. I doubt I'll read another in this series for that reason but this is a good addition if you're after 1920s occult murder mystery.