Description
A successful mystery novelist gathers a lively house party at his country home and stages an elaborate murder scene for their amusement. The guests are challenged to solve the fictional crime, with their host himself playing the victim. But when the lights come up after the performance, the game has turned real: the supposed victim is dead, stabbed through the heart.
The case falls to a village police inspector whose plain clothes and rural manner invite others to underestimate him. Faced with a roomful of possible suspects, conflicting clues, hidden histories, and fresh mysteries that deepen the puzzle, he must separate performance from reality and discover what lies behind the dead man’s carefully constructed life. Around him, household loyalties, old secrets, and misleading appearances complicate every step of the inquiry. First published in 1927, The Crookshaven Murder is a classic American detective novel built around an ingenious opening, a country-house setting, and a steadily tightening investigation.
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