Dead Man's Quarry: A Golden Age Mystery
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On a cycling holiday in the idyllic Wales-Herefordshire border countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder - for the man was shot in the head.
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Fortunately John Christmas, last seen in The Studio Crime (1929), is on hand with his redoubtable forensic assistant, Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.
Dead Man's Quarry is the second of Ianthe Jerrold's classic and influential whodunits, originally published in 1930.
This new edition, the first in eighty years, includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
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