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In the Mayor's Parlour

by J. S. Fletcher

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First published
1922
Pages
242
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Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) · 7 h 49 min · 25 parts

  1. In the Mayor's Parlour

    23:47

  2. The Cambric Handkerchief

    20:53

  3. The Tannery House

    22:43

  4. Bull's Snug

    19:45

  5. Sleeping Fires

    21:31

  6. The Ancient Office of Coroner

    20:16

  7. The Voluntary Witness

    20:28

  8. Mrs. Saumarez

    21:23

  9. The Right to Intervene

    21:34

  10. The Cat in the Bag

    16:54

  11. The Nineteen Minutes' Interval

    16:19

  12. Circumstantial Evidence

    14:11

  13. A Woman Intervenes

    16:10

  14. Whose Voices?

    14:36

  15. The Special Edition

    17:51

  16. The Castle Wall

    17:57

  17. Impregnable

    20:02

  18. Loose Strands

    20:17

  19. Black Secrets and Red Tape

    21:32

  20. The Fell Hand

    17:43

  21. Corruption

    17:43

  22. The Parlour Maid

    14:13

  23. The Connecting Wall

    19:19

  24. Behind the Panel

    19:01

  25. The Empty Room

    13:29

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Joseph Smith Fletcher sets this 1922 puzzle in Hathelsborough, a small northern English town where old money and older grudges quietly run the council. John Wallingford wins the mayoralty on a reform platform, and within months of taking the chain of office he is found stabbed in the mayor's parlour with an old Spanish rapier, killed in a room no one was seen entering or leaving. His cousin Richard Brent, a London journalist with little patience for provincial secrecy, arrives to bury him and stays to name the murderer. What follows is a steady unpicking of municipal corruption, hidden financial interests, and the people who profited from keeping the town exactly as it was. Fletcher builds his case through documents and testimony rather than melodrama, and the guarded little borough itself becomes the chief suspect.

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J. S. Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was an English journalist and one of the most prolific authors of his generation, credited with well over two hundred books. A Yorkshireman who began in poetry and regional history, he turned to detective fiction in his fifties and won a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Book facts

First published
1922
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
242
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)