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A motley group of guests arrive at Philleigh House in Cornwell for the weekend at the invitation of their host, Maude Bennet, who likes to entertain people who were ‘quite unlike each other.’ Events take a deadly turn when one of the guests, Sylvanus Ward, is found murdered by a dagger to the heart. Inspector Treadgold is on a fishing holiday nearby and is tasked with the investigation of the respected solicitor’s murder. Why has Ward been murdered and who did the ghastly deed. Which of the guests had motive and opportunity and the cunning to get away with it? Once more Treadgold is faced with a bizarre murder.
First published in 1937, this is a Golden Age murder mystery.
ANTHONY WEYMOUTH was the pen name of IVO GEIKIE COBB (1887-1953) a successful London doctor who also wrote several books on medicine, history and an autobiography. Luckily for his readers he also turned his hand to writing a series of detective novels featuring the brilliant, but eccentric Inspector Treadgold. This highly individual detective features in six novels and a collection of short stories starting with FROZEN DEATH.
This is the fifth Inspector Treadgold mystery.
Other ‘INSPECTOR TREADGOLD’ mysteries
- Frozen Death
The Doctors Are Doubtful
No, Sir Jeremy
Hard Liver
Cornish Crime
Tempt Me Not
Inspector Treadgold Investigates.
Genre: Mystery
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