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The Borough Treasurer

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 12 minutes
ISBN
9781836104629
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • blackmail
  • hidden identity
  • small town
  • buried secrets
  • amateur detective
  • corruption
  • criminal past
  • suspense
  • Golden Age mystery

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Description

Respected Highmarket treasurer Milford Cotherstone faces ruin when an elderly tenant recognises him from a criminal conviction decades earlier. After that man is found dead, blackmail, buried crime, and a murder investigation close in on a town that trusted its ledger. Suspense rich with moral tension and a past that will not stay paid. Spoken as when the borough treasurer still asks what respectability costs when the truth returns.

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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