The Spanish Cape Mystery

Ellery and his friend, Judge MacLain, come on vacation to a cottage next door to Spanish Point—the place where Walter Godfrey, a multi-millionaire, lives. And, as tradition goes, rest turns into an investigation of a tangled case—with the twist of a naked body exposed on the terrace.

In the riddle of the “naked man”—as Quine himself calls it—there are many astonishing, unusual, and clearly confusing details. In real life it rarely happens that such a strange crime is committed amid such breathtaking luxury.

The murder of John Marco—later revealed to have occurred after an erroneous kidnapping—and the inexplicable nudity of the murdered man turned the investigation into a full-blown puzzle. Now, however, it’s simply a story about another successful application of Quine’s deductive method—a captivating detective tale to read.