The Case of Elymas the Sorcerer

<p><em>Less than an hour later the nude body of the dead man lay in the outhouse which did duty at St. Mead as the official mortuary.</em></p><p>Anthony Bathurst is taking the sea-air at the village of St Mead when the local constabulary drag him into the investigation of a local murder.</p><p>The mystery is grotesque: someone has stripped the body left it in a field and shaved the victim's moustache off. Soon a second body is found along with a mentally-challenged young man whispering about gold . . .</p><p>With these obstacles in his path can Bathurst possibly unmask the killer?</p><p><em>The Case of Elymas the Sorcerer</em> was first published in 1945. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.</p>