A01=Bertram Brooker
Author_Bertram Brooker
CanLit
Category=FBA
cult
detective
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forth dimension
Gregory Betts
historical fiction
Huxley Herne
mystery
whodunit
whodunnit
Product details
- ISBN 9781988784816
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Invisible Publishing
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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A first-rate detective novel that explores media's manipulation of a gullible public.
A cult leader announces a miracle will take place and she will rise to heaven. A medium prophesies the date, publicity gets to work, and all of America hums with anticipation. On the appointed day, she disappears and scientist Mortimer Hood, there to verify the miracle, must investigate how—and whether—the whole thing is a hoax, or if the priestess has been murdered.
Originally published in 1936, this edition features a new introduction by poet and academic Gregory Betts (editor of The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker's Stories and Essays).
Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) was one of Canada’s first abstract painters. A self-taught polymath, in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General’s Award–winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive.
Gregory Betts is a Canadian poet, editor, and professor at Brock University with a speciality in Canadian and avant-garde literature. The author of seven books of poetry and nine books of experimental writing, he also edited and contributed the introduction for The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker’s Stories and Essays (2009).
