John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a pol...

It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge, the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton, whic...

The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to...

Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clear...

Subject-Murder (1945) is a detective novel by Clifford Witting based on his personal experience a...

Let X be the Murderer was published in 1947. It is a bleak November morning when Sergeant Martin,...

Detective-Sergeant Martin christened him 'Whiskers', but nobody could be certain who he really wa...

Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at whic...

Work was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done w...

The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to...

The novel is in two sections. In the first, the narrator, Vaughn Tudor, describes the formation o...