Travers turned to Wharton.
Sayers.
This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans."Thoroughly engrossing, well written and full of legitimate puzzlement."--Dorothy L.
The Case of the Dead Shepherd was originally published in 1934. and then another. . .
Why, for instance, had the Dead man clung to a large book as he expired? And where is Flint, the school caretaker? Wharton, accompanied as ever by inspired amateur sleuth Ludovic Travers, journey to the grim pile of Woodgate Hill school to find a shocking and unpredictable solution to this murder .
But there were too many suspicious circumstances to satisfy Inspector Wharton of Scotland Yard. "I ask you, George, as a man of the world--do schoolmasters and mistresses have souls full of glamour and passion and intrigue? Are they torn by the same emotions that rend people like us?"At first the old schoolmaster\'s poisoning was judged a suicide.
Travers turned to Wharton
