It was Lucius Belkamp’s wretched misfortune to be everywhere mistaken for a spy, although this was hardly surprising. Anyone with a cover story so unimpeachable as Lucius Belkamp’s simply had to be a spy, in the considered view of quite a number of exceedingly astute chiefs in those shadowy departments whose business is espionage and its prevention.
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This Golden Age mystery novel features a nervous cavalier with frightened eyes, a mysterious and puritanical satyr, a dagger, a candlestick, a crucifix, and a false beard—and, of course, a detective! (Not to mention the protagonist, "Prince Julien de Medici -- of Broadway.")
Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1935.
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