The Mad Hatter Mystery

The newspapers dubbed the thief the Mad Hatter and his outrageous pranks amused all London. but the laughter turned to horror when a corpse with a crossbow through the heart was found at the Tower of London in a top hat.As Dr. Gideon Fell was to discover the whole case turned on the matter of hats-- in fact threatened to become a nightmare of hats. For the victim was none other than Sir William Bittons nephew dressed in a golfing suit and wearing Sir Williams stolen opera hat. And tying Sir William to his murdered nephew with a scarlet thread was the stolen manuscript of a completely unknown story said to be the handiwork of Edgar Allan Poe.In a tale as freighted with menace as the Traitors Gate portly Dr. Fell unravels a crime unique by even his standards of the bizarre.