Ask the Right Question David Mitchell newly appointed aide-de-camp to the

newly appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington

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Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London

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Ask the Right Question David Mitchell newly appointed aide-de-camp to theMeet Albert Samson a detective in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. But Samson's no hard boiled clone. For one thing, he doesn't even own a gun. For another, he works in Indianapolis, the apparently unglamorous Midwestern city where he grew up. But the city and its problems are not the stuff of stereotypes. And Samson uses his wits and his contacts to solve his clients'