Author: James Andrew

James Andrew writes historical crime fiction and poetry. The Suitcase Murderer returns to the years after the First World War, when Inspector Stephen Blades investigates the disappearance of shop worker Emma Simpson in a Yorkshire seaside town. A witness has seen a man carrying two suitcases from her building, but the apparent clues draw Blades toward several competing suspects and motives. Book records identify the novel as a standalone case within a four-volume Inspector Blades sequence published by Book Folks, following The Body Under the Sands, Death Waits for No Lady, and The Riddle of the Dunes. Andrew’s author biography also records three poetry collections and a longstanding interest in Golden Age detective fiction. Those interests meet in The Suitcase Murderer: period detail and the social disruption following war support a deliberately traditional investigation. The novel gives readers a clear entry into Andrew’s work through its closed circle of clues, historical setting, and recurring detective.