“Eight Detectives” by Alex Pavesi (2020)

“The two suspects sat on mismatched furniture in the white and almost featureless lounge, waiting for something to happen.”

Having only just this month read what is the greatest murder mystery of the twentieth century, I think this week I stumbled into the title holder for the twenty-first. By this point, you’d think it was impossible to come up with a new idea in the genre, but Alex Pavesi has just gifted us something absolutely remarkable.

In the 1930s, mathematician Grant McAllister decided t...