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The Middle of Things

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours
ISBN
9781836104643
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • amateur sleuth
  • hidden secrets
  • London crime
  • wealthy stranger
  • police investigation
  • conspiracy
  • suspense
  • classic detective fiction
  • family intrigue

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Description

Richard Viner’s quiet London life shatters when he finds the aftermath of a brutal murder in a dark passage, then is drawn into a victim’s hidden past, fortune, and betrayals among influential families. Every clue deepens the danger. Spoken as when the middle of things still asks what a passer-by will risk once murder has already begun.

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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