Originally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house party. Even better, one of the guests declares that an after-dinner séance would be so much more entertaining than bridge. And it’s all fun and games until a young woman goes missing. Assuming the disappearance is someone’s idea of a joke, the well-heeled host Lady Susan doesn’t want to ruin a good party by calling the police. So it’s up to her footman, a down-on-his-luck young army veteran, along with the lovely lady he once hoped to marry, to solve a mystery that soon turns to murder, with the only suspects being the eccentric party guests . . .
“Detection and crime at its wittiest—all Berkeley’s stories are amusing, intriguing and he is a master of the final twist.” —Agatha Christie
“Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the ‘twist’ but of the ‘double-twist.’” —The Sunday TimesOriginally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house party. Even better, one of the guests declares that an after-dinner séance would be so much more entertaining than bridge. And it’s all fun and games until a young woman goes missing. Assuming the disappearance is someone’s idea of a joke, the well-heeled host Lady Susan doesn’t want to ruin a good party by calling the police. So it’s up to her footman, a down-on-his-luck young army veteran, along with the lovely lady he once hoped to marry, to solve a mystery that soon turns to murder, with the only suspects being the eccentric party guests . . .
“Detection and crime at its wittiest—all Berkeley’s stories are amusing, intriguing and he is a master of the final twist.” —Agatha Christie
“Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the ‘twist’ but of the ‘double-twist.’” —The Sunday Times
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781504085038 |
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| Publisher: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road |
| Publication date: | 07/25/2023 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 236 |
| Sales rank: | 75,713 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
