TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wynne,Anthony
AU  - Edwards,Martin
TI  - Murder of a lady: a Scottish mystery 
T2  - British Library crime classics
SN  - 9781464205712
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Scottsdale, AZ
PB  - Poisoned Pen Press
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Highlands
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Highlands (Scotland)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Originally published in 1931 by Hutchinson, London
N2  - "Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom--but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body. Inspector Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case. The Gregor family and their servants are quick--perhaps too quick--to explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman. Dundas uncovers a more complex truth, and the cruel character of the dead woman continues to pervade the house after her death. Soon further deaths, equally impossible, occur, and the atmosphere grows ever darker. Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas, the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene, and unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of plots."--
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