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Ravensdene Court

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 37 minutes
ISBN
9781836104506
Published
23 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • country house
  • antiquarian books
  • Northumberland
  • detective investigation
  • family secrets
  • hidden identity
  • coastal setting
  • inheritance
  • classic crime fiction

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Antiquarian Leonard Middlebrook visits Ravensdene Court to catalogue a library, then faces murder on the Northumberland coast as family secrets and motives surface. Spoken as when a manor still asks who profits when a stranger dies by the sea.

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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