Murder of a Lady: A Scottish Mystery

Book Details:

• Author: Anthony Wynne

• Publisher: Niyogi Books

• Binding: Paperback

• Number of Pages: 272

• Release Date: 06-10-2017

• ISBN: 9789385285899

• Languages: English

About the Book:

In The Fish Scale Murder, set in the eerie and gloomy Duchlan Castle in the Scottish Highlands, a chilling mystery unfolds. Late one night, the body of Mary Gregor, the sister of the laird of Duchlan, is discovered in her locked bedroom, having been stabbed to death. The room is securely locked from the inside, and the windows are barred. The only clue left behind is a silver fish’s scale, lying on the floor next to the victim’s body.

Inspector Dundas is assigned the case, but the Gregor family and their servants are all too quick to paint Mary as a kind, charitable woman. As Dundas delves deeper into the investigation, he uncovers a much more intricate and sinister truth. As the investigation progresses, the atmosphere in the castle grows darker with each passing moment, and soon, more impossible deaths occur.

Local superstition blames the fish creatures from the nearby waters, but it’s the brilliant amateur sleuth, Eustace Hailey, who uncovers the true, logical solution to the grisly mystery. Anthony Wynne, a master of locked-room mysteries from the golden age of British crime fiction, weaves a cunningly plotted tale in The Fish Scale Murder, one of his finest works, which had been lost to time since its original publication in 1931.