03722cam a2200565 4500 591328930 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781464205729 1464205728 B07VLBRP97 Amazon 5d0e0f62-0a37-44b1-992c-17394b4372ee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2514820 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wynne, Anthony. Murder of a Lady [Libby eBook] : A Scottish Mystery. Sourcebooks, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1319kB. Format: OverDrive Open EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1315kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 238kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Scottish Highlands. Historical Fiction. historical mystery. Detective Fiction. British Library. murder mystery. superstition. 20th Century. Locked-Room. small town. golden age. whodunit. classic. amateur. police. crime. HTML:<p><strong>Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder</strong></p> <p>"This 1931 novel, now republished as part of the British Library's Crime Classics series, is a cunningly concocted locked-room mystery, a staple of Golden Age detective fiction." <strong>—Booklist STARRED review</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Classic Literature. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. Edwards, Martin. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d0e0f62-0a37-44b1-992c-17394b4372ee&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d0e0f62-0a37-44b1-992c-17394b4372ee&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d0e0f62-0a37-44b1-992c-17394b4372ee&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d0e0f62-0a37-44b1-992c-17394b4372ee&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Open EPUB eBook)