The Mill House Murder Paperback:ePub

The Mill House Murder Paperback:ePubAmazon rating: From the original 1937 edition : J. S. Fletcher's last detective story has all the suspense, exciting action, and shrewd deduction that made Mr. Fletcher (in Will Cuppy's words) "the dean of mystery writers." It tells of the murder of James Martenroyde, a Yorkshire mill owner who is about to marry for the second time. His body is found one night near his own home. Suspicion falls on his nephew and the latter's mother. Certainly there

strangled gasp

With horror and fear twitching every feature Mr Ponderby Jonson backed away

He composed two impressive works of supernatural horror fiction – both narrated by Cambridge scholars – which appear here together in one volume for the first time

the better for play

“There is a wonderful and indefinable charm about the roofs

First published in two volumes in 1867 from hidden manuscripts replete with tales of sorcery

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with their meanings in English

it becomes clear that an extraordinary enigma awaits them

Secretary of Cambridge University Press from 1922 to 1948

William Wordsworth

many of them leading figures of their generation including Virginia Woolf