The Man Who Asked Why, Jessica Ryan, 1945 fascinating hobby published by University of California

published by University of California Press

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The Man Who Asked Why, Jessica Ryan, 1945 fascinating hobby published by University of CaliforniaPublished by Doubleday, Doran and Company under their Crime Club imprint in 1945, this mystery novel by Jessica Ryan follows a detective whose investigative method turns on the questions he asks rather than the conclusions he reaches. A Crime Club selection from the final years of the Second World War, the book belongs to the tradition of tightly plotted American mystery fiction that made Doubleday's imprint one of the most reliably readable in the