First published 1993
An elderly gentleman is found dead in his chair at the Bellona Club on Armistice Day. The death seems natural, but a tricky inheritance question leads the cunning Lord Peter Wimsey to investigate further. As he digs into the case, dark secrets and unsavory characters emerge, and the unpleasantness only deepens. Can Wimsey untangle the web of lies and get to the truth before more lives are at stake?
Genres: fiction, classic-literature, 20th-century, crime, british-literature, detective, academic, amateur-sleuth
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-detective, dark-secrets, inheritance-dispute
Setting: England
Period: 1920s
243 pages · Mass Market Paperback · HarperTorch