Who pays the piper? / Patricia Wentworth ; with an introduction by Curtis Evans.

[U.K.] : Dean Street Press, 2016.

216 pages ; 20 cm.

Originally published in 1940 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Lucas Dale, new owner of King's Bourne, was flirting with danger when he showed his priceless collection of pearls to the guests assembled in his period salon. But when, under threat, he forced lovely Susan Lenox to break her engagement and consent to marry him, he started a train of events that inevitably led to murder, shattering the quiet of the English village. Bill Carrick, Susan's former fiance, is the primary suspect, but as Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott soon discover, Dale's questionable past offered motives of revenge and greed to darken the mystery. Motives which would lead another victim into the path of murder.

English

February 10, 2021