Inquest / Dean Street Press (ePub)
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"There are serpents even in this Eden," she chuckled, with a wave of her thin, much-beringed hand at something in the grass. "But now that we have a French cook, we shall be spared any dangerous mistakes."
The woman was actually pointing at a group of red spotted fungi, near the root of a beech.
The setting of Inquest is that most fabled of locales in Golden Age mystery fiction: a house party at an English country mansion. Hebble Chace is the residence of Marie Hoe-Luss, widow of a wealthy English businessman. The latter is said to have expired during a house party in France, from the accidental consumption of deadly mushrooms, though some believe a more sinister explanation.
Now Marie has reassembled all the original guests from that house party, with the addition of Dr. Soame, narrator of the tale. When one of their number falls to his death from a high window, is it misadventure-or foul play? And come to that, was William Hoe-Luss even murdered anyway? Read on and find out.
Inquest, Henrietta Clandon's debut mystery, was first published in 1933. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian by Curtis Evans.
"An attractive and promising piece of puzzle making." Dorothy L. Sayers
According to the copy of Loder's Two Dead (1934): "He once wrote a novel in twenty days on a boarding-house table, and had it serialised in U.S.A. and England under another name . . . He works very quickly and thinks two hours a day in the morning quite enough for any one. He composes direct on a machine and does not re-write." While perhaps this is an exaggeration, Hazlette was highly prolific, author of at least forty-four novels between 1926 and 1938.
Hazlette's series characters were Inspector Brews, Chief Inspector R.J. "Terry" Chace, Donald Cairn (as Loder) and William Powell, Penny & Vincent Mercer (as Henrietta Clandon).
With a solid reputation for witty characterisation and "the effortless telling of a good story" (Observer), Loder's popularity was later summed up in the Sunday Mercury: "We have no better writer of thrill mystery in England."
- Autor: Henrietta Clandon
- 2020, 1. Auflage, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Dean Street Press
- ISBN-10: 191305490X
- ISBN-13: 9781913054908
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2020
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