The Case of the Black Twenty-Two
1928
A locked-room puzzle wrapped in 1920s London atmosphere and the dark glamour of Mary, Queen of Scots' surviving relics. Peter Daventry, a weary young solicitor, receives a singular commission from American millionaire Laurence P. Stewart: acquire three artifacts once belonging to the doomed Scottish queen, cost be damned. But when Daventry inspects the pieces at the Hanover Galleries, they vanish overnight, a security guard left butchered in their place. Worse, Stewart is discovered murdered in his sealed country house study, the locks unbroken, the windows latched from within. Only Anthony Bathurst, the eccentric detective with a taste for the impossible, can untangle this knot of theft and blood. Brian Flynn's 1928 masterpiece crackles with period detail and sardonic wit, layering buried secrets from Mary's turbulent reign against a present-day labyrinth of double-crosses. For readers who crave the elegant cruelty of golden age puzzles, the satisfation of watching a clever mind dismantle the seemingly impossible.
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