The Mendip Mystery

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The Mendip Mystery
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First edition (UK)
Author Lynn Brock
LanguageEnglish
SeriesColonel Gore
GenreDetective
Publisher William Collins, Sons
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1929
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by The Slip-Carriage Mystery  
Followed by Q.E.D.  

The Mendip Mystery is a 1929 mystery detective novel by the Irish-born writer Lynn Brock. [1] It was the fifth of seven novels in his series featuring the character of Colonel Wyckham Gore, one of the most prominent investigators during the early stages of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [2] It was published in America with the alternative title of Murder at the Inn.

Contents

Synopsis

Colonel Gore is due to meet a client at a lonely inn located in the Mendip Hills of Somerset. While there a variety of strange and disturbing events happen, culminating in the murder of a local landowner Louis Tanquered. Gore's initial investigations seem to demonstrate that events long in the past led to the killing.

References

  1. Athill p.263-64
  2. Reilly p.198

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