Death at Swaythling Court
1926
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
247
Number of Pages
The story involves the invention of a lethal ray and the attempts of Jimmy Leigh, the inventor, to acquire financing to start a manufacturing business. His mistake is that he chooses as his primary backer William Hubbard, a wealthy, lisping, butterfly collector who also happens to be a despicable blackmailer. As is the case with most blackmailers in crime fiction he meets a violent end. He is discovered apparently stabbed by a paper knife in his suffocatingly hot study. [Pretty Sinister Books]
Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
37
5 STARS
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3 STARS
22%
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Author
J.J. Connington
Author · 26 books
Pseudonym of Alfred Walter Stewart.
