For Murder Will Speak is a 1938 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] [2] It is the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. The title references a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company under the alternative title Murder Will Speak.[3]
For Murder Will Speak AuthorJ.J. ConningtonLanguageEnglishSeriesSir Clinton DriffieldGenreDetectivePublisherHodder and StoughtonPublication date1938Publication placeUnited KingdomMedia typePrintPreceded byTruth Comes Limping Followed byThe Twenty-One CluesAfter the novel Connington took a brief break from Driffield and produced two books The Counsellor and The Four Defences with a new detective, radio personality Mark Brand, as the lead character.[4]
Synopsis editA series of poison pen letters disrupt the harmony of an English town. An embezzling manager at a financial company, spending his spare time trying to conduct multiple romantic affairs, comes under scrutiny. However it is the unexplained death of a young woman in Scotland that slowly begins to unrel the case. When the cheating manager is then found dead, the two cases begin to merge.
References edit ^ Murphy p.152 ^ Evans p.207-8 ^ Reilly p.347 ^ Evans p.231-32 Bibliography edit Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014. Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984. Murphy, Bruce F. The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery. Springer, 1999. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.This article about a mystery novel of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
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