The Memory Man

The Memory Man by Coutts Brisbane is about the adventures and games of wit between criminal mathematician Perry Davison and reporter Billy Harwood. Excerpt: «NAVAL officers, several of flag rank, in uniform or civvies, curt of speech. Several obvious landlubbers were treated with deference, for they were high officials. Some score of naval ratings, half of them armed with rifle and bayonet, and disposed at sundry vantage points along the shores of the inlet, the rest manning the launches and pinnaces which had brought this gathering of the big brains of H.M. Navy to this lonely bit of water.»