The Investigations of Simon Iff — Aleister Crowley

A wonderfully entertaining series of detective stories, featuring the mystic and psychologist Simon Iff, who solves crimes by probing hearts and minds. ""Simple Simon" sees through the complexities of human misdeeds, from murder to bank theft, to the plain truth behind them. The stories typically revolve around an apparently unsolvable crime, which is eventually untangled by Iff's magickal and psychological logic. Crowley explained the method of crafting a Simon Iff story in simple terms: ""Think of a situation as inexplicable as possible, then to stop up all the chinks with putty, and having satisfied myself that no explanation was possible, to make a further effort and find one."" This volume contains all the Simon Iff short stories.