[C S Lewis Mysteries 02] • The Country House Murders

Dear Jack, I think I’m about to be arrested and charged with murder.’

Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect.

The young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford tutor, C. S. (‘Jack’) Lewis. As they investigate, mystery piles on mystery. Why did the victim’s husband disappear twelve months before? Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors? Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of all: how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake?

C. S. Lewis’s second mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery. The second in the C. S. Lewis Mysteries series.

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Kel Richards is an author, journalist and broadcaster. Kel presented Word Watch on ABC radio for twelve years and is the bestselling author of The Case of the Vanishing Corpse and The Aussie Bible. He currently hosts The Sunday Night Open Line Show