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The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 34 minutes
ISBN
9781836104568
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • stolen jewels
  • family investigation
  • business intrigue
  • hidden identity
  • conspiracy
  • inheritance
  • amateur detective
  • deception
  • classic crime fiction

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Manufacturer Marshall Allerdyke races to Hull on an urgent telegram and finds his cousin dead under suspicious circumstances, then follows stolen jewels, secret deals, and murder through a maze of false names. Suspense and deception share one chase. Spoken as when the Rayner-Slade amalgamation still asks what a business call can hide in a dead man’s room.

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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