There is a minor element of locked room mystery in this story but it's sorted by the detective quite quickly, almost as if the author was trying to play with the expectation of locked room and subverting it. This was apparently a story found in Gerald Verner's papers and finished by his son. Featuri...
Written in 1956, it has all the elements of a classic British mystery. A village ( Ferncross),an eccentric amateur sleuth, upper middle class villagers and a mysterious derelict manor house where death happens rather to often whenever a light appears in one of the rooms. This village definitely ha...
A classic British murder mystery with all the right ingredients, a bucolic village with cottages and rose gardens, a big manor house, eccentric inhabitants, murder ( of course) of a mysterious woman and in this case, a very sunny,summery feeling. Perfect, were it not for the outdated attitude and ...
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