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The Paradise Mystery

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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Description

In cathedral Wrychester, Dr Mark Ransford’s quiet life shatters when a mysterious stranger is found dead inside the precincts. Questions of identity, buried family ties, and conflicting loyalties thicken with every cloistered clue as deception closes around the close. Atmospheric mystery with sacred stone and human secrets. Spoken as when the paradise mystery still asks what the cathedral will hide behind its doors.

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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