The House in Charlton Crescent: 2 (The Inspector Furnival Mysteries)

Protruding from the dead womans breast was the gold and jewelled dagger she had shown them half an hour before. And looking horribly incongruous among the laces of her fichu a deep stain was spreading.Elderly cantankerous widow Lady Anne Daventry summons a private detective Bruce Cardyn to her London home. He is tasked to find out one thing: just who is trying to kill her?Any number of relations have a financial interest in her death. Then there is Lady Annes recently dismissed private secretary her ladys maid and the butler...Despite Cardyns efforts Lady Anne is murdered and Inspector Furnival in his second golden age mystery is on the case with Cardyn playing Watson. Originally published in 1926 this new edition is the first printed in over eighty years. It features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.Miss Haynes new book shows all the merits of its predecessors. Careful plot a villain concealed natural setting observation of character--for all these it scores points. Morning Post