Cornish Coast Murder

Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature -himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery.'The Reverend Dodd spends his evenings reading detective novels by the fire while serving as the vicar of the sleepy Cornish village of Boscawen. However, God forbid that any real crimes ever take place in his seaside parish. The vicar's tranquility, however, is disturbed one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, a reclusive and irritable magistrate, is discovered at his home in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The complete lack of leads perplexes the neighborhood police inspector. Fortunately for Inspector Bigswell, the Reverend Dodd is present and prepared to test his keen insight into the motivations of criminals. A fishing village on Cornwall's Atlantic coast provides a vivid backdrop for this classic mystery from the height of British noir. It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction be award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards.