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Prince Zaleski and Cumming's King Monk

MP Shiel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd

Published:20th Nov '25

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Step into the realm of supernatural detectives!
A collection of supernatural detective short stories by the author M.P. Shiel.
Prince Zaleski the mysterious exiled Russian, spends his time in his ruined abbey, surrounded by strange artefacts, including a partially unwrapped mummy. He solves cases mostly without even having to leave the abbey – when he "might sometimes be induced to take an absorbing interest in questions that had proved themselves too profound, or too intricate, for ordinary solution".
"Zaleski is Sherlock – demented" – HG Wells
Cumming's King Monk Shiel's The Pale Ape and Other Pulses collection presented a second extraordinary figure, Cummings King Monk who has a longer section with three component short stories that have been called Shiel's "subversive take on the crime story genre".

ISBN: 9789357310574

Dimensions: 182mm x 120mm x 18mm

Weight: 167g

208 pages