![]() ![]() A couple of unimaginative town cops suspect Diaktoros, but he cheerfully sets these misguided fellows straight. ![]() Local developers are after the dead man’s unspoiled seaside digs, so to Diaktoros, it looks like homicide. In “ The Taint of Midas,” the portly dick with a philosophical bent calls on a beloved old friend on the island of Arcadia only to discover the aged watermelon vendor dead by the side of the road, the victim of a hit-and-run. But Athenian sleuth Hermes Diaktoros and Inspector Singh of the Singaporean national police - on assignment in Bali - both outsmart statistical probability as energetically as they go around combating crime and complaining about Americanized bad food.īoth gumshoes are odd ducks, with Diaktoros the more appealing of the two. With profiles like these, life-expectancy statistics seem as likely to come into play as criminal elements. What are the odds that two mysteries should come out in the same month set in romantic locales - one in Bali, one in Arcadia - featuring fat detectives who are serious foodies, smoke cigarettes and wear white shoes? ![]()
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