Everybody Always Tells: A Bobby Owen Mystery: 27 (The Bobby Owen Mysteries)

At that moment the door opened and a deep harsh husky voice said: Discussing my murder are you?Bobby Owen of Scotland Yard and his wife Olive are busy bargain-hunting in a famous London department store. But a shopping expedition nearly turns into a crime scene when Olive discovers a necklace stuffed in her handbag. The plot thickens when it transpires it was placed there by one Lord Newdagonby - whose stout denial of the act is swiftly followed by a fatal knife blow to a prominent scientist. The meaning of this locked-room murder and its connection to a dilettante inventor a disrespectful daughter and the pearls in Olives bag form one of Bobbys most puzzling investigations.Everybody Always Tells a classic golden age whodunit is the twenty-seventh novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series originally published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans and a selection of E.R. Punshons prolific Guardian reviews of other golden age mystery fiction.What is distinction? ... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.--Dorothy L. Sayers