THE great detective sat in his office. He wore a long green gown and half a dozen secret badges pinned to the outside of it. Three or four pairs of false whiskers hung on a whisker-stand beside him. Goggles, blue spectacles and motor glasses lay within easy reach. He could completely disguise himself at a second's notice. Half a bucket of cocaine and a dipper stood on a chair at his elbow. His face was absolutely impenetrable.
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THE great detective sat in his office. He wore a long green gown and half a dozen secret badges pinned to the outside of it. Three or four pairs of false whiskers hung on a whisker-stand beside him. Goggles, blue spectacles and motor glasses lay within easy reach. He could completely disguise himself at a second's notice. Half a bucket of cocaine and a dipper stood on a chair at his elbow. His face was absolutely impenetrable.
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This book is a send-up of various different literary genres: the detective story, the ghost story, the rags-to-riches story, etc. It?s very humorous and much better than the book I?d started before it, which deals with the supernatural, only not so amusingly.
I?ve read literary parodies before now. But those tend to deal with specific books and authors. Mr. Leacock decided to write books that parody style rather than target certain authors. It is a gentle poke at the inherent flaws that leave these genres open to ridicule. Nonsense? Yes. Foolishness. Perhaps not so much.