The Iron Clew

Leonidas Witherall Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s “other” detective inhabits a suburb of Boston named Dalton. One of its most colorful residents he is the proprietor of a prestigious boys’ school and instantly recognizable by all as William Shakespeare’s remarkable look-alike. Few people however know him as “Morgatroyd Jones” author of the popular and flamboyant Lieutenant Haseltine adventure novels. But like his own fictional hero Witherall’s outrageous escapades mix slapstick and suspense like no one else’s.