Major Jack Haldean is visiting his cousins at a fete hosted by his
aunt. He is surprised when a man he really had no use for from the
Flying Corps comes up to him in the beer tent. Later in the afternoon
the same man is found dead in the fortune teller’s tent.
Haldean is a writer of detective mysteries, so he wants to pump
Superintendent Ashley for information. Ashley has a plethora of
suspects. Haldean offers his services to Ashley as he had recently
helped The Yard with an investigation.
The following morning Ashley calls Haldean to a local pub where a man
has been found shot to death in the room of the previous victim. Ashley
had checked the room the previous evening and all was right. Haldean
has no idea who the new victim is. They learn he is from London.
Up in London with the help of Inspector Rackham, who Haldean had helped
earlier, they get into the victims’ flat. There they discover a pendant
belonging to Haldean’s cousin, Isabelle. How had it come to be there?
While in London Haldean takes the opportunity to research records at the
War Office. Will it help figure out anything about the two victims?
Searching the records gives Haldean the idea that the murders could have
something to do with blackmail. After discussing it on the way home,
Ashley is of the same mind. It points to someone close to Haldean’s
cousins.
How can Haldean and Ashley find the culprit? It is going to take an
inadvertent meeting with a little girl that will provide Haldean with a
potential answer. Author Dolores Gordon-Smith has lots of twists and
surprises for the reader in this murder mystery. A good, quick read.
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