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Death of a Good Woman
(1961)(The seventh book in the Inspector Pitt Detective series)
A novel by J F Straker
When Eric Cawthorne storms out of the house one afternoon after a terrible row with his wife Grace, it is nothing unusual.
The pair are always quarrelling – at least, when Eric is home in the holidays from his far away job as a school master, that is.
But a more sinister train of events begins to unravel when Grace is discovered dead at the foot of the cliffs the following morning.
The obvious suspect is Eric, and he soon finds himself in prison awaiting trial for her murder.
Desperate to clear his name, Eric’s lover Sheila – the reason for the quarrel with his wife – arrives and puts her skills as a private detective to good use.
Sheila starts to investigate the mysterious characters living at Mulgerry House, the stately home in the country where Eric and Grace had an apartment.
But who would have reason to murder Grace Cawthorne?
Perhaps she wasn’t such a “good woman” after all...
Death of a Good Woman is an expertly plotted crime thriller from a master of the genre.
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code.
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
The pair are always quarrelling – at least, when Eric is home in the holidays from his far away job as a school master, that is.
But a more sinister train of events begins to unravel when Grace is discovered dead at the foot of the cliffs the following morning.
The obvious suspect is Eric, and he soon finds himself in prison awaiting trial for her murder.
Desperate to clear his name, Eric’s lover Sheila – the reason for the quarrel with his wife – arrives and puts her skills as a private detective to good use.
Sheila starts to investigate the mysterious characters living at Mulgerry House, the stately home in the country where Eric and Grace had an apartment.
But who would have reason to murder Grace Cawthorne?
Perhaps she wasn’t such a “good woman” after all...
Death of a Good Woman is an expertly plotted crime thriller from a master of the genre.
Praise for J F Straker
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code.
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
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