A special 100th anniversary edition of J.S. Fletcher’s best detective novel, recognised as one of the Golden Age’s earliest and most successful classic stories.
An unknown elderly gentleman is found mysteriously done to death in the Middle Temple. After due investigation the police conclude it was merely a case of robbery. But young Spargo, a journalist, and Inspector Rathbury of New Scotland Yard, are quickly on the scent of a deep and engrossing problem.

This Detective Club classic is introduced by the detective fiction historian Nigel Moss, and includes the bonus of Fletcher’s short story ‘The Contents of the Coffin’, his precursor to The Middle Temple Murder.