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The Herapath Property

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 11 minutes
ISBN
9781836104513
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • inheritance dispute
  • Member of Parliament
  • detective investigation
  • missing person
  • family secrets
  • political intrigue
  • hidden motives
  • English country house
  • classic crime fiction

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After wealthy MP Jacob Herapath dies under murky circumstances, secretary Selwood digs through inheritance, deception, and divided loyalties to find the truth. Spoken as when a household fortune still asks who gains when a master vanishes.

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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