John Sladek's brief but brilliant career as a writer of locked room mysteries came to an end with InvisibleGreen (1977). in which his Great Detective, an American living in London called Thackeray Phin, made a triumphant return after his successes in Black Aura. Apparently Sladek didn't make enough money for writing more books of this kind to be worthwhile - a real shame.With this book, he moved publisher from Jonathan Cape, who published Black Aura, to Victor Gollancz. The front cover of th...
