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The Borough Treasurer

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Language
English
Length
214 pages
ISBN
9781836104797
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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Milford Cotherstone, the respected Borough Treasurer of Highmarket, faces ruin when an elderly tenant recognises him from a criminal conviction decades earlier. After the man is found dead, suspicion, blackmail and buried secrets collide as a murder investigation uncovers corruption, betrayal and the consequences of a hidden past. Joseph Smith Fletcher crafts a suspenseful mystery rich with twists and moral tension.

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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