The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye

An Anthony Bathurst Mystery

Brian Flynn

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Dean Street Press
07 October 2019

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: The Anthony Bathurst Mysteries

"""Anonymity is such a terribly strong position in which to entrench one's self. To you I am Sheila Delaney - to me you are - an unknown quantity.""

At the Hunt Ball in Westhampton, Sheila Delaney dances the night away with a stranger - a man who wanted only to be known as Mr X. At the end of the evening, he departs as mysteriously as he appeared.

Months later, private investigator Anthony Bathurst is approached by the Crown Prince of Clorania over a nasty blackmail case.

At the same time a sea-side dentist finds that the girl he was treating has been found dead, apparently injected with cyanide.

The three events prove to be intimately related, and Anthony Bathurst and Chief Detective-Inspector Bannister find themselves on the trail of an exceptionally ruthless murderer.

The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye was originally published in 1928. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.

""One of the ablest pieces of misdirection one could wish to meet"" Sutherland Scott"

By: Brian Flynn
Imprint: Dean Street Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781913054397
ISBN 10: 191305439X
Series: The Anthony Bathurst Mysteries
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 07 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian Flynn was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls in the evenings, and acting in his spare time. It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time mediocre in the extreme, he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author's wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery. The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 54 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst.