 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Henry Wade |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Constable |
Publication date | 1937 |
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The High Sheriff is a 1937 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. [1] Wade was a writer of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, best known for his series featuring Inspector Poole. [2] This was one of a number of stand-alone novels he wrote, structured as a partially inverted detective story.
Cecil Day-Lewis writing in The Spectator under his pen name Nicholas Blake noted in his review that the author "turns from pure detection to the novel of character with a crime motif. The turn, to my mind, is not for the better: but that may be because I don’t care for hunting and shooting, which play a large part in the book, and because I found the hero, Sir Robert D’Arcy, rather a stick." A more favourable review was written by Sir Claud Schuster in the Times Literary Supplement .
Sir Robert D’Arcy, the high sheriff of Brackenshire is blackmailed by a man who knows of his act of cowardice against the Germans during the First World War. D’Arcy, a proud and arrogant man from a leading family of the county can't bear the potential slur against his name. When the blackmailer is shot dead during a shooting party at D’Arcy's country house, suspicion inevitably falls on him.
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