"Good God, you don't think it was an accident?"

Wealthy industrialist Anthony Mullins is found dead in a garage fire with the door locked. The locals assume it was an accident or perhaps suicide. But when the autopsy reveals a bullet wound to Mullins' head and no revolver is found, a murder investigation ensues.

Was the killer his disgraced nephew Holliday, rumoured to be overly close to his wife? Or Patricia Mullins herself, whose inheritance relied on her husband's death from natural causes? Or friend James Constant, who's research society is the beneficiary of Mullins' unusual will? It soon becomes apparent that everyone, including the victim, has something to hide.

Good-natured Police Constable Sadler and Inspector Trenton, are alternatively assisted and hampered by the efforts of the local residents to find the killer. At first, everyone appears to have a perfect alibi, but the more Sadler and Trenton probe, the murkier the picture becomes. Fortunately, journalist Charles Venables is on hand to help make sense of the conflicting and confusing evidence.

This classic detective novel from the 1930s is now back in print.

About the Author

Christopher St John Sprigg (1907-1937) was a witty and prolific writer who also published non-fiction under the pseudonym Christopher Caudwell. Sprigg wrote seven crime novels between 1933 and his death February 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Other books featuring sleuth Charles Venables are also available from Moonstone Press.

Reviews

Dorothy L. Sayers reviewed The Perfect Alibi in The Sunday Times, saying 'The characters in this book have a way of making acute and entertaining observations and that is the most attractive feature of a very attractive piece of work....if you like a book to be charmingly written and full of the sort of people you would like to meet you will enjoy this.'

-- Dorothy L Sayers * The Sunday Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9781899000036
Author Christopher St John Sprigg
Format Paperback
Page Count 286
Imprint Moonstone Press
Publisher Moonstone Press