The Crow's Inn Tragedy
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A well-respected solicitor is found strangled in his London office, with no sign of forced entry and few clues to his killer's identity. As suspicions fall on his missing clerk and estranged family members, long-buried secrets come to light. An amateur detective must unravel a web of deception, inheritance disputes, and hidden motives before the murderer strikes again.
This classic British Golden Age mystery features a new ntroduction by John Betancourt.
Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1864. With an “intense interest in crime and criminal psychology,” she once cycled to Ightham in Kent to visit the scene of Caroline Mary Luard’s 1908 murder and pushed her way into the Hilldrop Crescent home of Dr. Crippen after the remains of his wife, Corrine, were found in the cellar in 1910. Haynes also attended the doctor’s trial. Haynes’s first novel, TheBungalow Mystery, was published by Agatha Christie’s publisher, The Bodley Head, in 1923. Haynes and Christie were the only two female authors to be published by the imprint. Eleven more novels followed, the last two being published posthumously.
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