Haun Saussy is University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He won the René Wellek Prize for Comparative Literature (for the second time) for his most recent book, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford, 2018). His book The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies (Fordham, 2016) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies.
71 Ebooks by Christopher Bush
Ezra Pound: Cathay
Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Ezra Pound’s Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound’s translations hel …
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Christopher Bush: The Perfect Murder Case
I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement.
An individual taking the name ‘Marius’ boasts in a series of letters that he will commit the Perfect Murder, dar …
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Christopher Bush: Dead Man Twice
“And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!”
The great English boxer Michael France looks set to become the new Heavyweight Champion of the world. Everyone is wai …
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Christopher Bush: Murder at Fenwold
“And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!”
When the wealthy Cosmo Revere is killed by a falling tree, ex-CID officer John Franklin and Ludovic Travers chance to …
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Christopher Bush: Dancing Death
However thorough your search was, I’m convinced the murderer, or the burglar—call him what you will—is still in the house.
Little Levington Hall, the site of the seasonal house party in Dancing Dea …
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Christopher Bush: Dead Man’s Music
“If you don’t think I’m taking a liberty in saying so, my opinion is that he was knocked down first and hanged after!”
Ludovic Travers starts an investigation of unnatural death by means of an auto …
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Christopher Bush: Cut Throat
Travers looked down at the face. On the collar was a red patch and a long streak. Across the throat was a gash.
Two rival London newspaper tycoons are at daggers drawn. But when Sir William Griffit …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Unfortunate Village
“It was some sort of sudden death?”
Travers made a face. “It certainly was sudden. I’ll say it’s ten to one it was murder.”
Ludovic Travers is asked by an old school friend, Henry Dryden, to inve …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the April Fools
“Let us know when you’re dead!”
Ludovic Travers had known it was a publicity stunt, all that business about the anonymous threatening letters. He expected a hoax but what he found was two men lying …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Three Strange Faces
Old Hunt slithered in the most amazing way and then fell to the floor. He lay between the seats, face upwards.
Ludovic Travers is on his way by train from Toulon to Marignac. Along for the ride are …
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Christopher Bush: The Plumley Inheritance
“Have you heard the news, sir?” the waiter said.
“I’m afraid I haven’t. What is it?”
“Plumley’s dead, sir. Henry Plumley. We just got the news over the ’phone. Suicide they say it was. Anything e …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the 100% Alibis
“Send someone here quick. There’s been a murder!”
Mr Lewton is dead. Stabbed through the back, no possibility of suicide—and no sign of a knife either. The deceased made a phone call summoning a do …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Dead Shepherd
Travers turned to Wharton. “I ask you, George, as a man of the world—do schoolmasters and mistresses have souls full of glamour and passion and intrigue? Are they torn by the same emotions that rend …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Chinese Gong
“Murder is easy. It’s child’s play to commit murder and get away with it.”
Unpleasant uncle Hubert is murdered while playing cards—and surrounded by any number of relatives who stand to gain by his …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Monday Murders
Murder on Mondays! Greatest prophecy of the century! T.P. Luffham was murdered!
Ferdinand Pole of the Murder League claims that, since 1918, thirteen murders have been committed on a Monday. A slea …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Bonfire Body
“It’s terrible. It’s a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands.”
Who is—or was—the headless, handless corpse, found discarded on a bonfire? This baffling case of identity leads to a dead do …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Missing Minutes
Travers looked down at the thing that sprawled. The head gave a last movement, and there was a faint sound like a tired moan. The time was eight minutes to eight.
Ludovic Travers is approached by h …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Hanging Rope
“You needn’t look impatient, sir. He’ll be finished with you long before dinner.ˮ
Who has murdered the beautiful Sonia Vorge in her bridal bed? Why is the sinisterly looped rope hanging from the oa …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Tudor Queen
‘I judge him to have been dead just about twenty-four hours. Suicide, almost certainly.’
Ludovic Travers polished his eyeglasses. Inspector Wharton grunted—sure signs of impending mystery. And they …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Leaning Man
Palmer saw him out, and gave that little deprecatory cough.
“If you’ll pardon me, sir, is it another murder?”
“Looks like it, ” Travers told him from the door.
This affair of Ludovic Travers an …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Green Felt Hat
“George Wharton said he hoped I’d have a nice murder for you.”
Ludovic Travers and his wife choose to spend part of their honeymoon in the quiet town of Edensthorpe—one place where they can be sure …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Flying Donkey
As Travers’s finger touched the dead hand, he felt the warmth, and wondered if the man were still alive. Then he saw the knife that stuck sideways in the ribs.
It was three years after Ludovic Trav …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Climbing Rat
An attendant had come in with the cage. He stooped and held the rope taut. The cage door was opened, Jules called from high in the roof and at once the rat began to climb. Then something went wrong. …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Murdered Major
The tea had brought a pleasant warmth and Travers snuggled down in bed. Once more he was busy with something that had vastly cheered him of late—a perfect scheme for the murder of Stirrop.
There we …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel
The curtain had been drawn back and there was the bed. Wharton and a stranger were standing by it, and when Wharton moved to meet me, I saw on the bed the body of Penelope Craye.
“She’s dead, ” I s …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Fighting Soldier
What was I to be this time? A Commandant again of a Prisoner of War Camp? Was I to get a sedentary job at the War Office itself, and begin the slow process of fossilisation? Was I due for some wholly …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Magic Mirror
“Good God!” I was staring like a lunatic. “Murdered, you say? When?”
“Less than half an hour ago, sir.”
TRAVERS: “I don’t know why I should call this case that of the Magic Mirror for there’s not …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Running Mouse
“Is he bad, sir?”
“Worse than that, ” I said. “In fact, he’s dead.”
1943. Ludovic Travers, consulting specialist for Scotland Yard, is on a fortnight’s well-earned leave in London from his milita …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Platinum Blonde
“It’s about a murder. . . . Here. Five Oaks, they call it. . . . A man, he’s murdered. . . . Oh, no, it isn’t a joke. I wish it was. . . . I said I wished it was. . . . You’ll send someone at once?” …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Corporal’s Leave
It wasn’t I who discovered the body. I want to make that perfectly clear, if only for the benefit of a couple of club acquaintances of mine.
Ludovic Travers, special investigator for Scotland Yard, …
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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 f …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Second Chance
‘Anything doing?’
‘Maybe, ’ he said guardedly, and then as a kind of afterthought: ‘Just slipping along to Hampstead. Charles Manfrey’s dead.’
Ludovic Travers is on army leave in London when acto …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Curious Client
Near the right temple was a hole, and down the forehead and along the nose was dried blood.
“Shot, by God! No wonder the poor old devil couldn’t hear.”
When the telephone bell rings in Bill Ellic …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Haven Hotel
It was Murder Eve, and I was the last person in Sandbeach to suspect it.
Ludovic Travers certainly isn’t anticipating anything remotely resembling murder, least of all his own. But when he is invit …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Housekeeper’s Hair
“I have an idea that a certain man is going to commit murder. He told me so—in so many words.”
If Ludovic Travers hadn’t been so sure the man was serious, he might not have gone snooping. If he had …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Seven Bells
The murderer was clever and the planning was perfect. There was apparently nothing that had been overlooked and nothing that didn’t go to plan. There was nothing that could be called a slip. Why then …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Purloined Picture
“Murder’s my job, not parish politics.”
Ludovic Travers, the unofficial expert of Scotland Yard, pairs with his friend, Superintendent Wharton, to dig deeply into an East Anglian murder. Interwoven …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Happy Warrior
“At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have considered it necessary to ask for the services of the same detective agency. I think I can prove otherwise, a …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Corner Cottage
I was thinking of offering Godfrey Prial some sort of partnership. I’m pretty sure now of at least two things—that he liked me, and that he’d have accepted. If he’d lived.
When Ludovic Travers took …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Fourth Detective
He was deader than last year’s hit-song. At the side of the skull was where the bullet had done its work.
Four detectives? Surely things must have come to quite a pass if the well-tried team of Lud …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Happy Medium
“Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat”
In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers is at the top of his considerable form. When Ludovic and his wife set out to attend a séance, they …
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Christopher Bush: Grab ohne Toten
Nachdem die schöne Moira ihren ältlichen Ehemann gehörig geplündert hatte, verschwand sie in aller Stille. Er konnte nicht einmal schweigen, denn ein paar kostbare Schmuckstücke, die seiner Firma …
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Christopher Bush: Bis Gras darüber wuchs
Der Auftrag, mit dem die alte Dame zu Ludovic Travers kam, war ein zu heißes Eisen für einen Privatdetektiv: Mordkandidaten gehören nun einmal unter die Fittiche von Scotland Yard. Doch einen Fall …
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Christopher Bush: Der Mann, der zweimal starb
Späte Reue erscheint Ludovic Travers verdächtig: warum will der junge Verleger Clandon ausgerechnet fünfzehn Jahre nach Kriegsende seinen Lebensretter wiederfinden, der ihn schwerverwundet aus dem …
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Christopher Bush: Ideographic Modernism
Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, …
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Christopher Bush: Ideographic Modernism
Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Burnt Bohemian
Isn’t it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?
Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agenc …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Silken Petticoat
Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion…
Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike fo …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Three Lost Letters
I liked him. When I heard of his death I was quite upset.
Henry Baldlow is a nervous man. An apparent invalid, he plans to emigrate for his health, yet claims to require a detective to guard his li …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Counterfeit Colonel
His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow’s on a lawn.
The man who saves Henry Clandon’s life during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes v …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Red Brunette
Providence, they say, is good to drunkards and children. Maybe there’s a third category—the unorthodox detective.
A new case finds Ludovic Travers travelling to the respectable English Midlands tow …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Benevolent Bookie
We’ve got to have a body.
That’s what what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted by one Lord Tynworth. Tynworth’s wife has vanished and his lordship wants her found – yet strangely …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Amateur Actor
There was no mess: just a dark stain one could see on the waistcoat. What was horrible was the contortion of the face and the tortured eyes. But even then I thought I knew him.
There can be few peo …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Extra Man
I never did like missing people. Far too often we’ve found them dead.
When that cheerful soul, Doris Bosford, asked Ludovic Travers of the Broad Street Detective Agency to trace her missing husband …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Flowery Corpse
Whoever was driving that car was either drunk or mad.
The Case of the Flowery Corpse takes Ludovic Travers to the English rural idyll of Marstead in Suffolk, visiting his old friend Henry Morle. Th …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Russian Cross
That happened to be the last that either of us actually saw of Alysia Rimmell—alive.
Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Treble Twist
Enough words and enough speed and you can get away with murder.
There was something unique about the Case of the Treble Twist. It isn’t often one gets a preview of a case or hovers round its fringe …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Running Man
I think murder is practically a certainty.
William Weddall was eccentric even in Ludovic Traver’s wide experience. There was about him an aura of secrecy and subterfuge at odds with the quiet atmos …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Careless Thief
‘How’s it going, George?’
‘Sheer murder.’
When Ludovic Travers went to Sandbeach-‘the Blackpool of the South Coast’-his purpose was to investigate on behalf of an insurance company a jewel robber …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Sapphire Brooch
It wasn’t easy to forget the frightened hostility in her face and the shrill hysteria of her voice when she’d closed and bolted the door.
Who were the intruders who left bloodstains and a sapphire …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Dead Man Gone
‘He says it’s something serious. Might be murder.’
When the well-dressed Mrs. Wilson came into his office, her business seemed simple enough-although a little odd and mysterious for a woman of her …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Three-Ring Puzzle
‘You’ll face two charges, ‘ I said. ‘One for murder and one for extortion.’
Ludovic Travers remembered Brian Jedmont as a photographer whose ambition outran his sense of ethics. The Broad Street De …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Heavenly Twin
He said he was deeply shocked to hear of Mr. Staffer’s murder.
I rather doubted it.
Ludovic Travers had never come across a more ingenious fraud-three of them, in fact. All were perpetrated in on …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Grand Alliance
Woman falls from window of flat. Doctor says killed instantly.
Well, thought Ludovic Travers as he set the newspaper aside, that finally put a period to a highly unsuccessful case. The woman, a Mrs …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Jumbo Sandwich
‘Death from manual strangulation after a blow that slightly fractured the skull.’
Ludovic Travers, private investigator, is approached by a slight acquaintance from his past, one Isabel Herne. She …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Good Employer
He hadn’t died from burns or asphyxiation. His skull had been smashed in. And not simply from a fall.
The good employer: yes, on the face of it, a fair description of Leonard Woode. Elderly, of ind …
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Christopher Bush: The Trail of the Three Lean Men
Seeing Munro Burnside was a last resource.
The young narrator of this mystery thriller is stony broke. In dire straits he appeals to his former boss, now a top men at a London newspaper, for a writ …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Extra Grave
‘No one could prove we had reason to suspect murder. We can afford to be thought fools. So we’ll go on behaving as if such a thought never entered our minds.’
‘I’m sorry, gents. I thought for a mom …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Deadly Diamonds
‘I just wanted to ask you one question.’
‘Yes?’
‘Why did you lie to us about that burglar?’
The Case of the Deadly Diamonds starts out as a small-scale caper for Ludovlc Travers, leading light …
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Christopher Bush: The Case of the Prodigal Daughter
Just round the corner I’d be in sight of the main entrance to the flats. And that’s all I remember. That, and a tremendous pain, and a kind of flash.
An urgent plea from Lady Marport to find her mi …
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Christopher Bush: Jake’s Lunchbox Surprise
"JAAAAKE!" Harriet shouted upstairs to Jake, "I’m packing your lunch this week, it’s delicious!" But will Jake’s lunch be delicious..?Jake is a mischievous older brother and …
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