The Paradise Mystery

Name: The Paradise Mystery
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781836104537

Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
ISBN: 9781836104537
Published: 24 July 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

cathedral town
murder investigation
hidden identity
family secrets
amateur detective
English village
suspense
clergy
deception
classic crime fiction

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The Paradise Mystery is set in the cathedral city of Wrychester, where Dr. Mark Ransford's quiet life is shattered after a mysterious stranger is found dead inside the cathedral. As questions surrounding the victim's identity and past emerge, long-hidden secrets, family ties, and conflicting loyalties come to light. Joseph Smith Fletcher weaves an atmospheric mystery of suspense, deception, and unexpected revelations.

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 · Sovereign9781836104704