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The Copper Box

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 29 minutes
ISBN
9781836104612
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • mystery
  • amateur sleuth
  • hidden treasure
  • secret identities
  • country house
  • snowstorm
  • conspiracy
  • suspense
  • crime investigation
  • classic detective fiction

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Description

Lost in a blinding northern snowstorm, Alvery Craye stumbles into isolated Kelpieshaw, where a mysterious copper box sits at the heart of dangerous secrets. Strangers gather with stolen identities and deadly motives until deception and peril fill the lonely house. Gripping border mystery with cold, twists, and no safe room. Spoken as when the copper box still asks what a storm will deliver to a lonely door.

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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