The Mystery at Underwood House (An Angela Marchmont Mystery) (23 page)

‘
It wasn’t something I’d planned to happen, certainly,’ she agreed, ‘but rest assured it wasn’t your fault. And besides, all’s well that ends well. It’s only a shame that he had to die in such a terrible accident.’

‘
An accident?’ he said.

‘
Yes,’ she said firmly.

He met her eyes for a moment.

‘
I see,’ he said.

She looked away first, then coughed and waved her hand in a gesture of dismissal.

‘
That will be all, William,’ she said. ‘I am very grateful for all you have done in the past few days. Come to me next week and we shall see about that holiday of yours.’

He straightened up and beamed.

‘
It’s a pleasure to work for you, ma’am,’ he said, then turned on his heels and walked out.

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Clara Benson was born in 1890 and as a young woman wrote several novels featuring Angela Marchmont. She was unpublished in her lifetime, preferring to describe her writing as a hobby, and it was not until many years after her death in 1965 that her family rediscovered her work and decided to introduce it to a wider audience.

THE MURDER AT SISSINGHAM HALL

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

The Murder at Sissingham Hall

The Mystery at Underwood House