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Series · 2 books · 1931-1933

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#12

Murder of a Lady

1931

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body.Inspector Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case. The Gregor family and their servants are quick - perhaps too quick - to explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman. Dundas uncovers a more complex truth, and the cruel character of the dead woman continues to pervade the house after her death. Soon further deaths, equally impossible, occur, and the atmosphere grows ever darker. Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas, the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene, and unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of plots.
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#16

Il coltello nella schiena

1933

Il corpo di Lord Wallace, in pigiama e con un coltello conficcato nella schiena, viene trovato dalla polizia su una spiaggia sabbiosa della costa inglese nei pressi di Eastsea. La morte è sopraggiunta istantanea e da alcuni elementi appare certo che la pugnalata fatale è stata inferta proprio in quel luogo. Ma intorno al corpo la sabbia è intatta; non ci sono impronte di alcun tipo nel raggio di un centinaio di metri e la stessa posizione del cadavere, che giace composto e senza altre ferite a parte una leggera escoriazione alla mano destra, esclude la possibilità che sia stato gettato da un aereo. Neppure le maree hanno avuto un ruolo in quel delitto un accurato controllo dei movimenti del mare dimostra infatti che sono da scartare sia l'ipotesi che il colpevole si sia allontanato a nuoto, sia quella che il corpo di Lord Wallace sia stato lasciato da una barca approdata a riva. Toccherà al dottor Eustace Hailey, medico psichiatra e investigatore per hobby, venire in soccorso della polizia e risolvere il mistero di questo e di altri due omicidi commessi in circostanze altrettanto inspiegabili. Un solo indizio accomuna i tre la presenza, vicino ai corpi, di alcune monete d'oro. Finora inedito in Italia, Il coltello nella schiena (1934) è un tipico esempio di "delitto impossibile", uno dei temi caratteristici dell'età d'oro del giallo.

Author

Anthony Wynne
Anthony Wynne
Author · 4 books

Anthony Wynne is a pseudonym of Robert McNair Wilson, an English physician, who developed a specialism in cardiology after working as an assistant to Sir James Mackenzie, whose biography he subsequently wrote in 1926. He was born in Glasgow, the son of William and Helen Wilson, (née Turner), He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University and became House Surgeon at Glasgow Western Infirmary. He was Medical Correspondent of 'The Times' from 1914–1942. He twice stood, unsuccessfully, for Parliament, as liberal candidate for the Saffron Walden district of Essex in 1922 and 1923. He wrote biographies and historical works under his own name and a single novel under the pseudonym Harry Colindale. Under Anthony Wynne, he created Eustace Hailey, a doctor in mental diseases and amateur sleuth, who featured in many of his 45 mystery novels, beginning with 'The Mystery of the Evil Eye' (1925) and ending with 'Death of a Shadow' (1950). As Anthony Wynne he also wrote short stories for a variety of magazines and newspapers. He married Winifred Paynter on 7th December 1905 in Alnwick, Northumberland, and the couple had three sons. In the September quarter of 1928 he married again, Doris May Fischel, at Hampstead and they had two sons. He died in the New Forest, Hampshire, on 29 November 1963.

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