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Back cover of the book:

"In Karl Marx Private Eye, Jim Feast not only engages us intellectually, but as the readers unravel the mysteries, there's a good laugh every few pages and gorgeous descriptions of the hotel, the clothing, and the food of the time. It's a very witty, fast-moving story with a terrific ending. If you like detective fiction, you'll love this book"

-Barbara Henning, author of Just Like That and Digigram

Historical events provide the backdrop for a rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian spa. Karl Marx Private Eye is a page-turner filled with tricky clues, colorful detectives, and an "exotic" setting. Written in a brilliant parody of Arthur Conan Doyle, this cozy historical mystery will keep readers guessing until its shocking final pages.

JIM FEAST helped found the action-oriented literary group the Unbearables, known for such events as a protest against the commodification of the Beats at NYUs Kerouac Conference, annual readings with poets spread out across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a blindfold tour of the Whitney Museum. In the early 198os, he met and married Nhi Manh Chung, author of Among the Boat People. She introduced him to Chinatown movie theaters, which played the pathbreaking Hong Kong noir detective films of those days, giving him a new way to look at the murder mystery. Feast has worked for Fairchild Publications and later taught at Kingsborough Community College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.