The Golden Dagger: A Bobby Owen Mystery: 29 (The Bobby Owen Mysteries)

Why should anyone want to pinch the dagger--except to do somebody in?No one answered this question.Item: one anonymous phone call reporting a murder at a historic country house - but no body is to be found. Item: one ornate antique knife discovered in a village call-box blood-stains on the blade.Rather than identifying a corpse Bobby Owen of the Yard has to find out who if anyone has actually been killed. Two persons one a best-selling author the other no-ones cup of tea are missing but a particular kind of hat keep turning up in the case - which also involves a haunted wood a hatchet-wielding secretary and a curious abundance of writers.The Golden Dagger is the twenty-ninth novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series originally published in 1951. 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