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"Gets going full speed with customary Tolefree aplomb, shrewdness, and bafflement." - The Saturday Review
"When [Tolefree] finally learns the truth about the killing, he does not tell the police, and for a very good reason. To the reader he drops a hint, and that is all. Is that mysterious enough? Then go to it." - The New York Times
Philip Tolefree returns from the war to the most baffling case of his career.
The trouble began over money. Frederick Trivett, squire of Porthgover, wanted it; his beautiful wife Emily had it; their charming daughter, Margaret, was going to get it.
The trouble came to a head with the influx of newcomers to the village. There were the Vanes, recluse widow and morose, tongue-tied son - both of obscure origin; the couple named Standish who seemed much better suited to big-city life than to a remote farm in the country; Dr. Colin Duncan, ostensibly there on the district's hush-hush project, but privately a man with an old score to settle; and Captain Andrew Collins, an uninvited guest with a habit of appearing and disappearing in a highly disconcerting fashion.
Alive, Frederick Trivett was thoroughly disliked; dead, he was unlamented; murdered - but thereby hangs the tale.
Genre: Mystery
"When [Tolefree] finally learns the truth about the killing, he does not tell the police, and for a very good reason. To the reader he drops a hint, and that is all. Is that mysterious enough? Then go to it." - The New York Times
Philip Tolefree returns from the war to the most baffling case of his career.
The trouble began over money. Frederick Trivett, squire of Porthgover, wanted it; his beautiful wife Emily had it; their charming daughter, Margaret, was going to get it.
The trouble came to a head with the influx of newcomers to the village. There were the Vanes, recluse widow and morose, tongue-tied son - both of obscure origin; the couple named Standish who seemed much better suited to big-city life than to a remote farm in the country; Dr. Colin Duncan, ostensibly there on the district's hush-hush project, but privately a man with an old score to settle; and Captain Andrew Collins, an uninvited guest with a habit of appearing and disappearing in a highly disconcerting fashion.
Alive, Frederick Trivett was thoroughly disliked; dead, he was unlamented; murdered - but thereby hangs the tale.
Genre: Mystery
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