Murder by Candlelight

✍ Scribed by Faith Martin

• Book ID: 112249180
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780008589981

✦ Synopsis

One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime... Selected by the Crime Readers Association as Read of the Month for January 'The perfect village mystery. A golden-age world with an energy that is totally contemporary' J.M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder 'All the ingredients of a classic mystery... enormous fun' Orlando Murrin, author of Knife Skills for Beginners The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out: lady of the house Amy Phelps has been discovered dead. But with all the windows and doors to her room locked from inside, how – and by whom – was she killed? Arbuthnot 'Arbie' Swift finds himself in the unlikely position of detective. The celebrated author of The Gentleman's Guide to Ghost-Hunting is staying at the Old Forge to investigate a suspected spectre, but now the more pressing matter of Amy's murder falls to him too. With old friend Val, he soon uncovers a sorry tale of...