While in her isolated small town, during the middle of their seance in fact, a murder takes place and our stage magician is arrested, then has to flee a (rather hasty) lynch mob before stumbling across the previously mentioned Judge, who puts the details together and concludes that perhaps a werewolf is involved. Instead - an ex-stage magician/escape artist (and rationalist) teams up with a spiritualist/occultism expert (and believer) to investigate a woman purported to have great powers as a medium. Yet, Pursuivant is not the main character, and only enters the narrative at about the halfway point (he just happens to live nearby). "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance" - This novella (originally serialized in three parts in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s) introduces another of Wellman's "Occult Detective" characters, one Judge Hilary Pursuivant. Placeholder review - I don't own a copy of this, but I'm reading a number of stories contained in it from scans of their original magazine appearances, and I needed to put the review somewhere.
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