Despite some issues, I thought this was pretty entertaining. I really like the world of Arkham Horror even if I don't think it ever really actually taps into the cosmic horror it shares a universe with, and it was fun seeing Roland Banks and Leo De Luca solve a mystery. I found myself a little disappointed by the mystery itself - if you've had any exposure to occult fiction in general it doesn't take much to assume the culprit of the inciting incident is something supernatural, and the novella doesn't really do much beyond that extremely straightforward storyline. It ends up feeling a little more like a backstory someone would come up with for a game of Call of Cthulhu - something we don't really need to read BECAUSE of how straightforward it is. nevertheless, I'm a sucker for hard-boiled detective stories and I'm a sucker for Arkham Horror, so it was still pretty fun.