Death Framed in Silver: A Golden Age Mystery

by Alice Campbell

Overview

It was Margaret Fairlamb-still warm, but stone-dead.

Margaret Fairlamb, celebrated actress, had been a popular and genuinely loved figure in the world of the theatre. Her death at the hands of an unknown, brutal assailant was a calamity fraught with horror not only to her family and friends, but to a wide public as well. Every known fact pointed to robbery as the motive. What other belief was possible when the victim had not an enemy in the world, and when the handbag taken from her had contained close on £100 in addition to valuable jewellery? Her death, following as it did the equally mysterious demise of her friend and fellow actress Rose Walsh, was a first-class sensation, but it was only the prelude to a story that for sheer drama outclassed any of the plots that had made her famous.

Death Framed in Silver was originally published in 1937. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

"She could not be unexciting if she tried" Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915393005
Publisher:	Dean Street Press
Publication date:	06/06/2022
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Alice Campbell (1887-1955) came originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was part of the socially prominent Ormond family. She moved to New York City at the age of nineteen and quickly became a socialist and women's suffragist. Later she moved to Paris, marrying the American-born artist and writer James Lawrence Campbell, with whom she had a son in 1914.Just before World War One, the family left France for England, where the couple had two more children, a son and a daughter. Campbell wrote crime fiction until 1950, though many of her novels continued to have French settings. She published her first work (Juggernaut) in 1928. She wrote nineteen detective novels during her career.