Suicide Excepted Author Forename:Cyril

Suicide Excepted Author Forename:CyrilAn Inspector Mallett mystery, originally published in 1939, by one of the best loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare. Inspector Mallett's stay at the country house hotel of Pendlebury Old Hall has been a disappointment. Room, food and service have been a letdown and he eagerly anticipates the end of his holiday. His last trial is to sit and listen when an elderly and boorish man, whose family once owned the house, joins his table. The next day

A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger

Nell and her friends are suddenly in the middle of another murder case

and none of the city's women feel safe - which one of them will be next

it's the day of her 50th birthday when she discovers that she's been assigned lead on an investigation into corruption on a global scale

irreproachable and distinguished

Enemies on both sides of the law are hot on his trail

where she escapes to the garden for some peace - and instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows

has been obsessed with his first case

The book takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis

menace and muscle

Unsure of her own instincts

without revealing their own closely guarded secrets