It won't be much longer now. Keep your head and hold your tongue." In Shadows Before, events from the past are the catalyst for murder. In hope of a fresh start after being acquitted of the murder of his sister-in-law, Matthew Weir has moved his family to Spanwater, a remote manor in the Cotswolds. But his heiress wife Catherine is traumatised by her sister's death and Matthew's trial, and has retreated into childhood memories, believing she is living in the Welsh border cottage of her childhood. Hired to keep Catherine ...
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It won't be much longer now. Keep your head and hold your tongue." In Shadows Before, events from the past are the catalyst for murder. In hope of a fresh start after being acquitted of the murder of his sister-in-law, Matthew Weir has moved his family to Spanwater, a remote manor in the Cotswolds. But his heiress wife Catherine is traumatised by her sister's death and Matthew's trial, and has retreated into childhood memories, believing she is living in the Welsh border cottage of her childhood. Hired to keep Catherine safe in her wanderings, companion Aurelia Brett is fleeing poverty and hunger in London, Matthew's brother Augustus is trying to elude past debts. His nephew is haunted by the death of his father. Then Catherine dies suddenly, and arsenic is found in her home-made tea. Evidence suggests someone in the house, but Chief Inspector Pardoe finds conflicting clues and suspicious behaviour among Spanwater's neighbours too. When a second death occurs, Pardoe - and the reader - must decide which shadows points to the perpetrator and why. Dorothy Bowers (1902 - 1948) was a champion of "fair play" mysteries, in which all the clues are cunningly displayed within the context of the story.
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Pudim, Rob. Fine. Trade Paperback 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Originally published in 1939. In 1937, Prof. Matthew Weir was arrested, tried and found not guilty of poisoning his interfering sister-in-law, but most observers said his good fortune was due to a good defense counsel and an overly confident local police force. To escape the prying eyes of his unforgiving neighbors, Weir packed up his family and moved to them into a smallish Tudor manor house not too far from Oxford. But when his wife, an amateur herbalist, dies of poisoning in the spring of 1939, the local police-fearing Weir might luck out again-call in Scotland Yard. Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe and Detective Sergeant Salt aren't so sure that the professor murdered his wife-or his sister-in-law for that matter. There are any number of other possible suspects in and about the manor house, including a mysterious older woman who rented a nearby cottage and befriended Mrs. Weir. This classic 1939 Golden Age detective novel marked the American debut of Dorothy Bowers, a very talented writer in the Sayers school who might well have joined the ranks of the masters of the genre had she not died from tuberculosis at the age of 46 after completing only five novels. Her first novel, "Postscript to Poison", was published in the U.S. in 2005 for the first time by The Rue Morgue Press to enthusiastic reviews.
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