Meet Semi-Dual. He casts a horoscope before dusting for fingerprints, takes the cases nobody else will touch, and has never once been wrong. Methodical and mystical, grounded and genuinely strange, his cases start as crimes and open into something much larger: a universe with patterns underneath it, if you know how to read them.
The Stars Do Not Lie collects his first five adventures, written by Ohio physician J.U. Giesy and Salt Lake City lawyer Junius B. Smith, first published in the pulp magazines of the 1910s and essentially invisible ever since. Fast, eerie, and smarter than they have any obligation to be.
