The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

'No one had tackled Doyce. He had been alone when he fell. He had simply folded up like a jack-knife and slipped to the ground. What had happened?'

The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans—a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own—may be about to silence the Gunners.

Moments into the second half the whistle blows, but not for a goal...