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Daisy's Pushkin Duel

By: Nick Aaron
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The delayed curse of the mark of Cain

In 1949 Daisy Hayes had a patient more or less her own age, Odile Speed, with whom she had a good rapport at once, and who told her about a strange kind of duel, interrupted for many years, from a short story by Pushkin.

Then on Christmas Eve of 1952 our blind sleuth extraordinaire stumbled on the scene of a murder just being committed. She bumped into the culprit and the victim died in her arms. The police interrogated her at once. But soon it became clear that the testimony of a blind witness was bound to be worthless in a court of law, the results of the coroner’s inquest were inconclusive at best, and it seemed that the murderer, whoever he was, would get away scot-free.

It was only in 1986, during a stay in Zermatt with her old friend Beatrice, that Daisy was confronted again with this ‘cold case’. She then experienced first-hand what it is like to fight your own version of a ‘Pushkin duel’ to the bitter end.

“Nick Aaron can be a strange storyteller. No one else would devise a plot combining a short story by Pushkin, the ‘discovery’ of DNA in 1953, and a very British scandal. Did solving a murder ever involve such disparate puzzle pieces?” — The Weekly Banner

This 42k novel is a stand-alone in the Blind Sleuth series

An unusual sleuth Daisy Hayes was born in London in 1922. Her father was a bank manager, hoping for a son, but he had to settle for a blind daughter.

Now what do you do when your child is blind since birth and you have the means to do all that is necessary to help her? You hire a private tutor to stimulate her verbal development in the first years of her life, because you realize how vital language will become for her. Then you send her to an exclusive school where everything is done to develop the minds and resourcefulness of blind girls. There they teach them all these fancy techniques of spatial orientation and mind mapping. And before you know it, your darling daughter has developed an exceptional intellect that just seems to draw murder mysteries like a magnet…

In combination with this unusual sleuth, Nick Aaron enlists the techniques of the page-turner to create an enjoyable reading experience: well-written prose, clever plots, and surprising characters. Unputdownable.

Crime Historical Murder Mystery Women Sleuths Detective Cold Case Short Story
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