The Rynox Murder MysteryA classic Golden Age crime novel, and the first time Philip MacDonald wrote a crime novel without a detective. Rynox is at that point where one injudicious move, one failure of judgement, one coincidental piece of bad luck will wreck it. So why would anyone send more than a million pounds in one pound notes to Mr Salisbury of the Naval, Military and Cosmopolitan Assurance Corporation? Who would shoot F. X. Benedik, the senior partner of the firm,

and its terrible after-effects

Horsetown is pre-industrial

giants are real

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she takes the case - but before Ellaway can be tried

but Molly and Oliver are joined by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama

there is every suggestion that something more sinister lies at the heart of her death

born of the Dark itself

a brilliant and beautiful young actress

As well as some of their dearest fictional friends

Hilary and Hugh Evenett have led a seemingly quiet and uneventful life in the sleepy town of Farthing-on-Hone

the whole thing is great fun