The Wintringham Mystery - Anthony Berkeley

Anthony Berkeley

Category: Crime

Narrator: Mike Grady

Tags: Crime, Mystery, Novel, Adults

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country-house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldnt solve!, Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephewwho recognises Stephen from his former lifedecides that an after-dinner sance would be more entertaining than bridge. Then Cicely disappears!, With Lady Susan reluctant to call the police about what is presumably a childish prank, Stephen and the plucky Pauline Mainwaring take it upon themselves to investigate. But then a suspicious death turns the game into an altogether more serious affair., This classic winter mystery incorporates all the trappings of the Golden Agea rambling c