Hooves of Fez: A Moroccan Gothic Mystery

Some doors in the ancient medina of Fez are bolted from the inside. Others should never have been unlocked at all.At sixty-seven, Dr. Idriss El-Sebti desires only three things: bitter wormwood tea, cheap cigarettes, and absolute silence from a world he finds thoroughly irritating. An ailing, retired scholar of forgotten manuscripts, he maintains a pragmatic truce with the unseen: they stay in thei...