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The Wolves and the Lamb

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 6 minutes
ISBN
9781836104520
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • inheritance
  • confidence trick
  • swindlers
  • deception
  • fraud
  • West Indies
  • young heir
  • crime fiction
  • justice
  • classic mystery

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The Wolves and the Lamb follows a trusting young heir newly arrived from the West Indies who becomes the target of two cunning swindlers determined to steal his inheritance. As deception, manipulation, and criminal schemes tighten around him, unexpected allies help expose the fraud. Joseph Smith Fletcher delivers an engaging crime novel where innocence is tested, justice prevails, and virtue ultimately triumphs over greed.

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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