The Middle Temple Murder

Name: The Middle Temple Murder
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781836104544

Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
ISBN: 9781836104544
Published: 24 July 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

murder investigation
journalist
London
legal profession
hidden identity
detective fiction
courtroom intrigue
newspaper reporter
deception
classic crime fiction

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Newspaper sub-editor Frank Spargo is pulled into the mysterious death of an elderly man in London’s legal district, where hidden identities and long-buried secrets thread through the Middle Temple. Every lead tightens the net of deception. Spoken as when Middle Temple murder still asks what the Inns of Court will hide behind respectability.

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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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836104711