Charing Cross Mystery

A former Commissioner of Scotland Yard lies dead in Charing Cross station, a photograph of a beautiful woman in his pocket. She is one of two glamorous sisters, wealthy and famous, tied to powerful men across London. Which of them sent him to his death - and why? J.S. Fletcher populates his puzzle with an ensemble of investigators: a sharp lawyer and his eager assistant, competing detectives, a cunning police spy, and the dead man's own granddaughter, each following different threads toward the same dark truth. The multiple plot lines converge in the final chapters, where Fletcher lets the reader weave them together into a coherent whole. This is Golden Age detection at its finest - a fair-play mystery that rewards careful attention and invites the reader to solve the puzzle alongside the professionals.