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The Chestermarke Instinct

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 55 minutes
ISBN
9781836104582
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • mystery
  • detective fiction
  • missing person
  • bank clerk
  • financial crime
  • small town
  • suspense
  • hidden secrets
  • amateur sleuth
  • classic crime fiction

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Description

Wallington Neale’s quiet bank clerk life in Scarnham breaks when manager John Horbury vanishes and rumours of missing securities, theft, and foul play pull him into a deepening investigation. Every clue opens a new question of motive and trust. Spoken as when chestermarke instinct still asks what a vanished man leaves behind in the ledger.

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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