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In the Mayor's Parlour

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In the Mayor's Parlour
23:47
The Cambric Handkerchief
20:53
The Tannery House
22:43
Bull's Snug
19:45
Sleeping Fires
21:31
The Ancient Office of Coroner
20:16
The Voluntary Witness
20:28
Mrs. Saumarez
21:23
The Right to Intervene
21:34
The Cat in the Bag
16:54
The Nineteen Minutes' Interval
16:19
Circumstantial Evidence
14:11
A Woman Intervenes
16:10
Whose Voices?
14:36
The Special Edition
17:51
The Castle Wall
17:57
Impregnable
20:02
Loose Strands
20:17
Black Secrets and Red Tape
21:32
The Fell Hand
17:43
Corruption
17:43
The Parlour Maid
14:13
The Connecting Wall
19:19
Behind the Panel
19:01
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.

About the author

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.