For Murder Will Speak
Author | J.J. Connington |
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Language | English |
Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1938 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | Truth Comes Limping |
Followed by | The Twenty-One Clues |
For Murder Will Speak is a 1938 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] [2] It is the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. The title references a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company under the alternative title Murder Will Speak.[3]
After the novel Connington took a brief break from Driffield and produced two books The Counsellor and The Four Defences with a new detective, radio personality Mark Brand, as the lead character.[4]
Synopsis
[edit]A series of poison pen letters disrupt the harmony of an English town. An embezzling manager at a financial company, spending his spare time trying to conduct multiple romantic affairs, comes under scrutiny. However it is the unexplained death of a young woman in Scotland that slowly begins to unravel the case. When the cheating manager is then found dead, the two cases begin to merge.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
- Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.