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C. S. Lewis and the Country House Murders
2014
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3.57
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‘Dear Jack, I think I’m about to be arrested and charged with murder.’ Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect. The young scholar turns to the only person who can his old Oxford tutor, C. S. (‘Jack’) Lewis. As they investigate, mystery piles on mystery. Why did the victim’s husband disappear twelve months before? Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors? Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of how did a massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake? C. S. Lewis’s second mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House Mystery. The second in the C. S. Lewis Mysteries series. Kel Richards is an author, journalist and broadcaster. Kel presented Word Watch on ABC radio for twelve years and is the bestselling author of The Case of the Vanishing Corpse and The Aussie Bible. He currently hosts The Sunday Night Open Line Show and Kel Richards’ Word of the Day on Radio 2CH-1170 in Sydney.

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Kel Richards
Kel Richards
Author · 15 books

Kevin Barry "Kel" Richards (born 8 February 1946) is an Australian author, journalist and radio personality. Richards has written a series of crime novels and thrillers for adult readers which includes The Case of the Vanishing Corpse, Death in Egypt and An Outbreak of Darkness. Richards currently presents ABC NewsRadio's weekend afternoons, which includes regular Wordwatch segments. Wordwatch is a feature introduced by Richards. Initially developed as a "filler" program for the radio programs to allow time for changes of people or locations, it tapped into an interest by the listening public and several books have been produced based on the show's research. In November 2003 the thousandth episode of the show was produced. Richards can also be heard on ABC Local Radio programs including Nightlife (national) and Evenings in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

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