The Wolves and the Lamb

Name: The Wolves and the Lamb
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781836104698

Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
Language: English
Length: 238 pages
ISBN: 9781836104698
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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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836104520