Between Twelve & One: An English Country House Murder Mystery($18.95Value)

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‘A murder most ingeniously contrived’ New York Times - A classic ‘Golden Age of Crime’ English country house murder mystery - ‘A brilliant bit of investigating and deduction by Superintendent Cobham solves the apparently impenetrable mystery’ The Bookman Nine guests arrive for a weekend party at Tenon Oaks, a Tudor country house set in nine acres of the English countryside. The visitors all know Tenon Oaks by repute. It is a show-piece in the county of Wiltshire, with a full contingent of domestic staff, fine entertaining rooms and positioned atop a hill with fine views over the wooded parkland below. The host, millionaire financier Mr Copolis, is absent. His private secretary, Victor Mand, informs the assembled party – all investors in Mr Coplis’s financial schemes – that the host is sick and confined to his room. However, after dinner whilst enjoying cocktails and cigars in the piano room, the investors are informed that all their money has been lost. Between midnight and 1 a.m. Mr Copolis is murdered… About the Author Vernon Loder was one of no less than nine pseudonyms adopted by Anglo-Irish detective fiction author, Jack Vahey. Born John George Hazlette Vahey in Belfast in 1881 he worked first as an apprentice architect, then an accountant before finally turning to writing fiction full-time. He is perhaps best known by his ‘Vernon Loder’ pseudonym used on twenty-two of his novels, many published in the prestigious Collins Crime Club, the first The Mystery at Stowe in 1928, the last, Kill in the Ring , in 1938. Jack Vahey died in 1938. Praise for the Author ‘Effortless telling of a good story and meticulous observation of the rules’ The Observer ‘A master story-teller’ Manchester Evening News ‘Character drawing in Vernon Loder’s strong point’ Glasgow Herald ‘The name of Vernon Loder must be widely known as a reliable and promising indication on the cover of a detective story’ Times Literary Supplement ‘One of the most promising recruits to the ranks of detective story writers’ F.T. Smith, Collins Crime Club Editor