Originally posted on Crime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival:
June 1933, Torquay. Kitty Underhay has been placed in charge of her grandmother’s hotel, one of the oldest buildings on the southwest coast of England. Her grandmother is heading away, despite a number of threatening letters that seem to imply that Kitty is in danger. At…
Month: June 2020
The Threefold Cord (1947) by Francis Vivian — In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
Originally posted on Crime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival:
“And if a man prevail against that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not easily broken.” Ecclesiastes, Chapter Four, Verse 12. Inspector Knollis was not usually one to be bothered with minor incidents, but the murder of a budgerigar and a…
