The Complete Simon Iff

WHAT IS AN "ENHANCED EDITION?"

This Aleister Crowley series of delightful mystery stories has been enhanced for your ebook reading pleasure. We've taken pains to remove ebook formatting errors in the source material. This book includes the following:

* expert formatting for optimal display on your Nook or Nook app

* a hyperlinked table of contents

* a bibliography of Aleister Crowley's works

* a short biography of Aleister Crowley

* a sample short story from William Hope Hodgson's Carnicki tales

THE SIMON IFF STORIES

His Simon Iff stories, collected her in entirety for the first time as an ebook at over 150,000 words (the length of two standard novels) are a wonderfully entertaining series of detective stories featuring the Daoist mystic and psychologist Simon Iff. They are urbane, witty, thoroughly British, and often verbally dazzling.

Simon Iff solves crimes by looking deeply into the human heart and mind, but always with wit and humor.

Crowley referred to the Simon Iff thusly: "Think of a situation as inexplicable as possible, then to stop up all the chinks with putty, and having satisfied myself that no explanation was possible, to make a further effort and find one."

EXCERPT

"But even as he spoke, the telephone rang. It was a voice unknown to the magician. It had appeared that Mrs. A had been telling Mrs. B at Mrs. C's dinner-party that Mrs. D had heard from Mrs. E that Mrs. F had a letter from Mrs. G saying that Mrs. H had met Mrs. I and Mrs. J's, the subject of discussion being Mrs. K's divorce. Mrs. L had then... it went on to the climax, where Mrs. Y had advised Mrs. Z to consult Mr. Iff; and might she call to see him? Mr. Iff regretted that he was sailing, that afternoon, to take up residence in a monastery on Mount Athos, and replaced the receiver."

And:

“Evidence of Identity', by Dolores Cass, was the Book of the season. It was as dry as a treatise on trigonometry, but people read and discussed it as if it were a novel The Washington Square group all tried to look like each other so as to deceive the very elect, and succeeded perfectly, as there was not one ounce of individuality in the whole gang."

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We hope you enjoy this enhanced edition of the Simon Iff stories.