White, TH - Darkness at Pemberley (1932)
Darkness at Pemberley successfully combines two important story trends of the period: an intellectual puzzle (one of the more ingenious locked-room puzzles of the decade) and an action plot that any of the major mystery story writers of the day would have been proud of. What with these two themes Police Inspector Buller soon finds himself in problems far beyond his depth.
As is to be expected of Mr. White, in addition to the main story there are the countless little touches of imagination that make his work unusual. There is the setting of the first murder, in a university easily recognized as Queen's College (rather Queens' College), Cambridge for which the publisher forced Mr. White to insert a disclaimer about the morals (medicinal, homicidal, etc.) of dons. And there is the strange interplay at the country house of Pemberley, where the question perpetually arises, who is trapping whom, detective or criminal? "
Darkness at Pemberley has been reissued by Ostara Publishing -- http://www.ostarapublishing.co.uk/
See also http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/darkness-at-pemberley-1932-by-th-white
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