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Murder of a Lady (Paperback)
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Murder of a Lady (Paperback)
Series: British Library Crime Classics
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Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish
Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the
laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to
death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the
windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver
fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.Inspector
Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case. The Gregor
family and their servants are quick - perhaps too quick - to
explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman. Dundas uncovers
a more complex truth, and the cruel character of the dead woman
continues to pervade the house after her death. Soon further
deaths, equally impossible, occur, and the atmosphere grows ever
darker. Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the
nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas,
the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene, and
unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of
plots.Anthony Wynne wrote some of the best locked-room mysteries
from the golden age of British crime fiction.This cunningly plotted
novel - one of Wynne's finest - has never been reprinted since
1931, and is long overdue for rediscovery.
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