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 woodsAnd most puzzling of all: how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cakeC. S. Lewis's second mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery.
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Publisher: SPCK PublishingISBN: 9781910674192Number of pages: 296Weight: 248 gDimensions: 216 x 138 mm
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Richards is a master at creating a 1930s background - long may his series continue.Follows the well-received C. S. Lewis and the Corpse in theCellar: 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!
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