Bookworm

Following Tommy and Tuppence detective story references again, I found this one, even in a Danish translation.

In short: Cute little book.

The longer version:

These curious little stories takes place in about 1901 and fingerprints etc. is not yet in use by the police, so one has to think in more simple terms to solve the mysteries.

Basically, and old man in a tea restaurant figures out mysteries and tells about them to a female journalist, while tying knots on a piece of string. It was sometimes possible for me to guess where he was going, but not always.

It is not a mystery (!) that these stories are nowhere nearly as famous as Sherlock Holmes, or Agatha Christie for that matter. Still, for such very early crime stories, I think they are of interest.