Author | J.J. Connington |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1938 |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Truth Comes Limping |
Followed by | The Twenty-One Clues |
For Murder Will Speak is a 1938 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington. [1] [2] It is the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. The title references a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company under the alternative title Murder Will Speak. [3]
A series of poison pen letters disrupt the harmony of an English town. An embezzling manager at a financial company, spending his spare time trying to conduct multiple romantic affairs, comes under scrutiny. However it is the unexplained death of a young woman in Scotland that slowly begins to unravel the case. When the cheating manager is then found dead, the two cases begin to merge.
Author | J.J. Connington |
---|---|
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre | Detective |
Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
Publication date | 1938 |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Truth Comes Limping |
Followed by | The Twenty-One Clues |
For Murder Will Speak is a 1938 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington. [1] [2] It is the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. The title references a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company under the alternative title Murder Will Speak. [3]
A series of poison pen letters disrupt the harmony of an English town. An embezzling manager at a financial company, spending his spare time trying to conduct multiple romantic affairs, comes under scrutiny. However it is the unexplained death of a young woman in Scotland that slowly begins to unravel the case. When the cheating manager is then found dead, the two cases begin to merge.