The Wolves and the Lamb

Name: The Wolves and the Lamb
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781836104520

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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Description

A trusting young heir newly arrived from the West Indies becomes prey for two cunning swindlers hunting his inheritance, until unexpected allies help expose the fraud closing around him. Innocence is tested; greed shows its teeth. Spoken as when wolves and the lamb still ask what virtue can keep when the pack smells money.

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 · Sovereign9781836104698