Murder in Montague Place

When the beautiful Eleanora Scambles arrives at Great Scotland Yard claiming that her husband has been wrongly arrested for murder, Inspector Bucket of the newly formed Detective Department agrees to look into the matter. But there are two problems. One is that the case is already being handled by Bucket's colleague, who is in no doubt about his man's guilt. The other is that someone else observed the meeting between Bucket and Mrs Scambles. Someone who will go to great lengths to ensure that certain other names are kept out of the enquiry.

It is a quirky case of stolen ferns which leads Inspector Bucket and his novice sergeant James Alexander Gordon to begin asking their own questions about the true identity of the killer. Fern collecting is the latest fad among the well-to-do ladies of London. A series of thefts and a connection between the shady butler of one of the victims and a former prize fighter known as the General, lead Bucket and Gordon down an increasingly murky and dangerous path, culminating in a dramatic confrontation with the true killer.

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Martyn Beardsley is a Nottingham author who made his breakthrough with the successful Sir Gadabout series for children. He has written numerous children's fiction and non-fiction books and is now looking more towards the adult market. History is his main passion; he has written a biography of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (Deadly Winter) and transcribed and co-edited Grateful to Providence, the diaries of the eighteenth century surgeon apothecary Matthew Flinders, father of the explorer of the same name. His most recent works are A Matter of Honour, the true story of England's la...
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