Sable Messenger: An Inspector Knollis Mystery

If Lesley Dexter had not been a snob her husband might have lived out his three-score-and-ten years.

Five years have passed without any major crime disturbing the provincial peace of the city of Burnham, and then, on an October night, a scream rends the midnight air in the residential suburb of Westford Bridge. P.C. Daker, hurrying to the door of Himalaya Villa in River Close, finds the tenant, Robert Dexter, lying dead across his own threshold. After a night's investigation, Sir Wilfrid Bur...