The Stately Home Murder

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Friday evening the genteel inhabitants of Ornum House were all busy. Cousin Gertrude cleaned the chandelier, the great-aunts played ombre, the black sheep of the family arrived in the village, his Lordship’s nephew and his wife came late for dinner, and one of them murdered poor Mr. Meredith.

To find the killer, Detective Inspector Sloan would have to sort through a household of suspects, an armory of weapons, and a muniments room holding a vital clue.

Murder at the Manor

On Sunday the public paid half a crown to view Ornum House’s three hundred rooms, its exceptional display of fine china, its authentic Holbein, its dank dungeon complete with suits of armor..and a dead body. With Burke’s Peerage tucked under one arm and a dictionary under the other, Detective Inspector CD. Sloan tiptoes through the halls of the aristocracy. His impeccable powers of observation might reveal who murdered the family archivist, but the family ghost walks through these same corridors. So someone else is going to die.

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