The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf Le Roux by Peter Godfrey Cody a pickpocket

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The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf Le Roux by Peter Godfrey Cody a pickpocketPeter Godfrey (1917 1992), a South African journalist and short story writer, created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux, called "Oom Rolf" by his nephew, Lieutenant Joubert of the Johannesburg police. In the ten stories in this collection, first published between 1948 and 1986, le Roux investigates such riddles as the man who can't remember 52 minutes of his life, an egg which becomes filled with poison before it is opened,