The Big Midget Murders

by Craig Rice
Category: "Fiction - Mystery"
Pages:365
Year of Publication:1942
Date Added:02/25/2021
Date Read:08/04/2024
Notes:Armed Services Edition

When the star act in a nightclub, a midget, is found strangled in his dressing room, owners Jake and Helene and their lawyer friend Malone set out to find the murderer. Well, first they hide the body, only to have it be mysteriously moved back to the midget's apartment in a instrument case —then they try to solve the murder. Eventually, they figure out the midget was killed by the man who helped him with his stage act. He was killed because he was using a young woman to blackmail young men into paying money to get out of fake marriages. Along the way, the murderer kills two other people who were helping the midget with his schemes.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for The Big Midget Murders

Review - Big Midget Murders, The

Tongue-in-cheek mystery in which the detectives don't really solve the crime so much as blunder about while people give them random bits of information now and again. At no point, did I figure out or even care who committed the crime.
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