The Country House Murders

A 1930 Murder Mystery

Kel Richards

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English

Marylebone House
17 September 2015

Fiction & Literature; Historical mysteries; Religious & spiritual fiction

Dear Jack, I think I’m about to be arrested and charged with murder.

Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect.

The young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford tutor, C. S. (‘Jack’) Lewis.

As they investigate, mystery piles on mystery. Why did the victim’s husband disappear twelve months before? Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors? Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of all: how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake?

C. S. Lewis’s second mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery.

By: Kel Richards
Imprint: Marylebone House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 248g
ISBN: 9781910674192
ISBN 10: 1910674192
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 17 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kel Richards is a veteran Australian journalist, bestselling author and broadcaster.

Reviews for The Country House Murders: A 1930 Murder Mystery

Richards is a master at creating a 1930s background – long may his series continue. * Church Times * Follows the well-received C. S. Lewis and the Corpse in the Cellar: A tale that twists and turns in the tradition of the golden age of English murder mysteries like Agatha Christie. Add [the author’s] trademark humour and it's an entertaining baffler! * goodreads *