THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY - OLD SINS CAST LONG SHADOWS

Andrew Hixson Suspense/Thriller

THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY
During the worst blizzard in decades, a local gentry, the enigmatic Lord Mabbott, falls from his study window, and it is at once assumed to be suicide. Lateral thinking private detective John Handful is not so convinced and is determined to prove otherwise and make it his business to know what other people don’t know. Never mind that Lord Mabbott was being blacked over an affair with a transgender stepsister-in-law or that the window he jumped from on the fourth floor was locked from the inside.
Before long, another body turns up, believed to be Lord Mabbott’s former lover. The hunt is on to solve the case, and although, John Handful faces fresh adversaries with a stream of alibis and a host of conflicting motives, he is determined to solve the riddle - despite the best efforts of the challenging Mabbott family.

OLD SINS CAST LONG SHADOWS
Lady Casterton is found strangled in her bedroom shortly after seven when her housekeeper went to discover why her employer had not appeared for dinner. From an examination of the body, it was clear that she had been killed a little after six at the very earliest.

Suspicion naturally fell onto her nephew, her inheritor, with whom relations had been strained in recent weeks.

He would have looked like a prime suspect were it not for the testimony of the housekeeper. But then the nephew turns up dead in a locked room. The question for John Handful is who murdered the murderer?

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