The Confessions of Owen Keane Style:Trade Softcover has contributed a detective story

has contributed a detective story in verse to this volume

along with dozens of short stories and radio plays

as well as a selection of Gilbert's other mystery stories

Palmer would later say that Withers was based on his high-school English teacher

Nicholas Blake wrote in The Spectator

The Confessions of Owen Keane Style:Trade Softcover has contributed a detective storyOWEN KEANE RETURNS!!! The Confessions of Owen Keane is the first short fiction collection by the Edgar nominated and Shamus winning author Terence Faherty. It brings together six short stories and a novella from the casebook of failed seminarian turned investigator Owen Keane. Called a "metaphysical detective" by the New York Times and "the ultimate amateur sleuth" by the Drood Review, Keane is a compulsive solver of mysteries. These mysteries can be