title: The Case of the Missing Men (Hobtown Mystery Stories)
author: Kris Bertin
description: "Im also eager[ly] anticipating the start of an unconventional graphic mystery, The Case of the Missing Men by Canadian collaborators Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes" (Paul Gravett <i>http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/top_26_graphic_novels_comics_manga1</i>)
zlib_text: Christopher Bush
  The Case of the Missing Men
  ““This is something desperately secret,” she said. “Something I want you to do for me
  . . . But I can’t tell you now. It’s something I’m frightened about.”
  Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, receives two
  invitations at once to visit Beechingford. One comes from Cuthbert
  Daine, his literary agent. Daine is an important and busy man, and it
  seems strange that he would want to see Travers personally about a
  matter that might have been handled by mail. The other invitation
  comes from Austin Chaice, the successful mystery writer. He is, he says,
  preparing a manual for detective story writers, and needs advice on
  certain points.
  The puzzlement aroused in Travers’s mind by these two letters is
  crystallized by a half-hysterical telephone call from Chaice’s attractive
  wife.
  Travers is prepared to find a delicate and involved situation at
  Beechingford—but not prepared for the murder of his host!
  The Case of the Missing Men was o