Murder Makes Murder

"Somewhere on their tight little island, lurking, slinking, creeping up from behind, striking death and terror - there was some one. And the very namelessness of the some one only made stronger the nervous, haunting dread that pressed down upon them."

1921 - The millionaire Thaddeus Culver creates a sensation when he announces that he will marry his housekeeper...
1935 - Culver's daughter Elise has become a succesful poet. Following a motor accident, she meets a handsome young man - only for her mother mysteriously to announce not only that the relationship must end, but that she and her daughter must move at once to a lonely island off the coat of Maine...
1936 - Spike Tracy is on his way to Hallett Island to attend the marriage of Elise Culver to his friend the publisher Hamish Hurd. But Elise is brutally killed before the wedding can take place...

Cut off from the mainland by a storm, Spike steps in to investigate the young woman's death - and he is convinced that the roots of the tragedy lie deep in her parents' past...

Originally published in 1937, this is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.


Genre: Cozy Mystery