THE LONGSNOZZLE EVENT By Hal Annas - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65137/pg65137-images.html

 and a chunk of what's left of the ice at the North Pole.

If a solitary genius of the latter half of the twentieth century had had the godlike stature to create a work with only one murder in it, instead of dozens, he would be immortal and today worshipped by the protagonists of moderation and hated by the antagonists who maintain, and not without reason, that all of the characters in such stories, and especially the detective, should come to a violent and horrible end on page three.