Murder at the Keyhole: An English Country House Mystery
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‘Waling’sname is a guarantee of an absorbing mystery’New York Times‘Exeptionally well told and skilfully constructed…satisfying and interesting to the last word’New York Sun‘Ha far more movement and bustle than most tales of this kind’J.B. PriestleyGolden Age of Crime writer R.A.J. Walling’sthird-ever crime novel, republished here for the first time in almost a centuryThis 2025 Spitfire Publishers edition includes a complete bibliography of R.A.J. Walling’scrime novelsJune 1928, the south coast of England. There were eight men in the library at Newplace Abbey, the country seat of the Redslade family. The door was bolted –the window closed. Seven men heard a shot: the eighth fell dead. Just as they were, they waited for the police. And each man eyed his neighbour furtively, for in their midst there was a murderer. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector came and searched them, to the amazement of all, except young Martin Somerfield, no weapon could be found. Somerfield pointed casually to the great keyhole in the massive oak door and in his cool American voice suggested that perhaps after all the murderer was not one of the seven in the library…ABUT THE