# A Modern Detective

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- Book: [A Modern Detective](https://www.bookquiver.com/edgar-allan/a-modern-detective) ([A Modern Detective.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edgar-allan/a-modern-detective.md))
- Authors: [EDGAR ALLAN](https://www.bookquiver.com/edgar-allan)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-232-1
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.