PRINCE ZALESKI AND CUMMINGS KING MONK

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 WellsCumming'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.