In the Mayor's Parlour

Name: In the Mayor's Parlour
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781836104490

Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
ISBN: 9781836104490
Published: 23 July 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

murder mystery
political intrigue
small town
detective investigation
hidden secrets
locked-room mystery
mayor
English countryside
family secrets
crime fiction

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Description

Newly elected mayor John Wallingford is found dead in his locked Hathelsborough office, and cousin Richard Brent digs through political rivalries, hidden motives, and long-kept secrets to solve the baffling crime. Suspense thickens in the civic heart of the town. Spoken as when the mayor’s parlour still asks what power leaves behind in a locked room.

Author

J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) treated the detective story as a trade, and honoured it. He produced at a Victorian-Edwardian pace that later Golden Age writers would recognise: wills, country houses, city chambers, and the long English suspicion that respectability is a costume. Fletcher is not flashy. He is reliable — which, in crime fiction, is a kind of style.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836104667