Merlin's Furlong

At Merlin's Furlong lived Mr. Aumbry, a wealthy, elderly art collector; and at Merlin's Furlong, just when he had changed his will, Mr. Aumbry died - violently...

Not far away, at Merlin's Castle lived Professor Havers, of Carford University, a man with an unsavoury reputation and a taste for witchcraft; and soon, at Merlin's Castle, long before his appointed time, Professor Havers died - violently...

And at Carford, not long before, an unfortunate undergraduate, a pupil of Professor Havers, had died - violently also, since he appeared to have cut his own throat...

It was fortunate indeed that three other undergraduates, involved innocently enough in these bloody affairs, had as a friend a nephew of Mrs. Lestrange Bradley. Fortunate for them, for they certainly needed help; fortunately for Mrs. Bradley, since the case, with its flavour of witchcraft and the Black Mass, was one after her own heart; and most fortunate of all for the countless admirers of 'the best woman detective in fiction' who will find in Merlin's Furlong all the ingredients of a vintage Gladys Mitchell crime story.


Genre: Mystery