Malice in the Highlands

Scotland Yard Detective Erskine Powell is on holiday at a fishing lodge on the River Spey when another fisherman hooks a something, but not a fish, rather a man.  Also on holiday with him is Superintendent Bennett of Inverness.  Bennett is tasked with the investigation and asks Powell to help.  When it is discovered that the victim is a rich Canadian, the Canadian embassy puts pressure on, so Scotland Yard assigns Powell to the investigation.

Author Graham Thomas presents us with several suspects through the course of this novel.  Is it the Canadian investor who had visited the victim the day of his death?  What about the owner of the lodge where Powell was staying?  The victim had been heard loudly arguing with the owner the night of his death.  Could it be the lodge owner's son?  He had a love interest in the daughter of the victim.

Powell duly investigates each, and it is only in the last few pages where the author reveals to the reader who the culprit truly is.  A nice quick read.