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world's greatest detective has a mind that can swing from the height of
triumph to the depths of despair in the blink of an eye. Triumph when
he thinks he's close to catching his evil nemesis, Ratigan; despair when
the cad slips through his fingers once again. For comfort he turns to
his trusty violin. Basil has amazing powers of deduction ("Offhand
I can deduce only little, only that the list is written with a broad-pointed
pen ... the paper is of native Mongolian manufacture ... and has been
gummed, unless I'm very much mistaken, by a bat that has been drinking
Rodent's Delight!") and uses them to help his clients in trouble.
When a mere tiny slip of a girl and a bespectacled doctor arrive on his
doorstep, the Great Basil cannot be bothered -- until he deduces that
the simple Case of the Missing Toymaker may actually be a hellishly fiendish
plot that leads straight to his nemesis! Ah-ha! The game is afoot! |