Set a Thief

by Lee Thayer

Unknown Binding

About the author

Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American artist who published sixty mystery novels beginning with "The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor" (1919) and ending, at the age of ninety-two, with "Dusty Death" (1966). All but one feature the red-headed detective Peter Clancy and his valet Wiggar.

Thayer was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute, New York City. She married Henry W. Thayer in 1909. As an artist and illustrator, she had paintings displayed at Chicago World's Fair, and produced designs for book jackets.

Reviews

[Ethan Hulbert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Set a Thief was weird. Like, it wasn’t necessarily a bad book, but it was a lot. It was people pretending to be other people then pretending to be other people on top of that as an act, who were then acting as other people in a play… and sometimes people would find out about one layer of deception because maybe they were someone else too, and meanwhile new people were introduced who were actually other people, or someone new would come who would know the person that someone else was pretending to be…

It was pretty much impossible to follow.

I mean, I still enjoyed it. But like. Wow. Wow. ... Wow.