[Inspector Felix 03] • A Strange Manor of Death

If you love the old ‘whodunits’ from the Golden Age of British crime-writing, you will enjoy this. Set in the 1920s, it’s the third in a series of traditional murder mysteries featuring the amiable Detective Inspector Miles Felix of Scotland Yard and his shrewd but prickly assistant, Sergeant ‘Teddy’ Rattigan.

As the relatives of Sir Jasper FitzGreville gather for his funeral there is much speculation as to who shall inherit his Tudor manor house and its famous gardens, not to mention his considerable personal fortune. Will it be Joan, his unmarried daughter, or has Sir Jasper favoured one of his more worldly nephews, better able to manage a large estate? Will there be anything for his nieces or his peppery military brother-in-law? And what of those more distant members of the family who have mysteriously been invited? Not one of the mourners, however, is prepared for Sir Jasper’s bizarre and unprecedented will — or for its murderous consequences.

Thus begins the strangest and most baffling case that Inspector Felix has yet encountered