Country House Murders : A 1930 Murder Mystery

Featuring the fictional character Clive Staples (aka ‘Jack’) Lewis as an amateur detective, presented with a mysterious crime.

''Dear Jack, I think I''m about to be arrested and charged with murder.'' Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect. The young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford tutor, C. S. (''Jack'') Lewis. As they investigate, mystery piles on mystery. Why did the victim''s husband disappear twelve months before? Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors? Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of all: how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake? This mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery. Woven throughout the story is an engaging conversation about Lewis''s Christian worldview.