Let Him Lie

Murder begins with the death of a kitten...Artist Jeanie Halliday is thrilled to move into a country cottage of her own next door to the home of her dear childhood friend Agnes. But the countryside idyll isnt quite what she might have expected: Agnes is suddenly and unaccountably unfriendly for one thing; and then the neighbours are a little peculiar - old Mr Fone obsessed with burial mounds; the scandalous Hugh Barchard; and an estranged mother taken to brandishing pistols around.Soon after the feline victim is found a shot is heard - the corpse of Robert Molyneux Agness husband is discovered with a bullet in his brain. Was Molyneux a meddler in sacred places a secret lothario... or simply a man who knew too much? And how does the unfortunate cat fit in? It will fall to Jeanie to assist the local police superintendent and fit the pieces of a baffling mystery.Let Him Lie is a classic golden age detective story from 1940 written by a queen of the form. It includes a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.