Scribbles the cat provided the first clue. Usually he was sedate and well behaved, but after drinking a saucer of milk he executed a wild dance around the room and tried to batter his brains out against the wall- before curling up asleep.
Investigating this bizarre incident, Nigel Strangeways stumbles on a sinister thread of mystery. In a house party seething with secret fears and tensions he conducts his greatest murder hunt.
This is a locked room mystery and its clever with all the clues available to the reader if you wish to try and solve it along the way.
My only complaint is Blake's detective, Strangeways, is totally devoid of humour, not a skerrick anywhere along the way. Strangeways is tediously straight, he doesn't even have an oddball side kick - his wife rides along but she's no barrel of laughs either.
A good story first published in 1941,but an unlovable solver of murders.
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