(Found) Birds enter through mirrors and steal souls

[A1Rajjpuut]

Looking for the author and title of a sci-fi horror story about a married couple who run a detective agency hired to tail a man and tell him what he does all day he has something red under his fingernails. Weird birds from another dimension/universe pass in and out via mirrors

 

[otistdog]

Sounds like Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" (1942) to me.

 

[tinkerdan]

I second that:

Sounds like Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" (1942) to me.

Jonathan Hoag hires a man and wife detective team to follow him.


Originally published under the pseudonym of John Riverside

 

[hitmouse]

Yep. Deffo Jonathan Hoag. Good story.

 

[A1Rajjpuut]

Thank you all so very much! Great jobs!