The Eames-Erskine Case: A Detective Story

A young man is found dead in a hotel wardrobe, and everyone assumes suicide by drug overdose. But Chief Inspector Pointer isn't convinced. Why would anyone choose to die inside a piece of furniture? And who was the man really? As Pointer interrogates the hotel staff and guests, the case fractures into layers of deception. The victim may not have been who he claimed. The witnesses may not be telling the truth. And somewhere in the fog of contradictory accounts, a killer moves freely. Written in 1925 by an author who has never been identified. A. Fielding published nearly two dozen Chief Inspector Pointer mysteries across the 1920s and 1930s, yet their true identity remains one of detective fiction's enduring enigmas. This is golden age detection at its finest: a locked-room puzzle wrapped in social comedy, where Pointer's quiet patience outmaneuvers the desperate scheming around him. For readers who prefer their crimes clever rather than brutal, their detectives cerebral rather than conflicted, and their endings earned through fair play.