Marion Lane and the Midnight Homicide: A Novel

The letter was quick. A reputation, a time, a spot.

Marion Lane and the Midnight Homicide plunges readers into the guts of London, to the key tunnels that exist far beneath town streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their crafty and devices to resolve crimes which have stumped Scotland Yard.

Late one evening in April 1958, a submitting assistant at Miss Brickett’s receives a letter of warning, detailing a reputation, a time, and a spot. She goes to analyze however finds the room empty. On the stroke of midnight, she is murdered by a killer she will’t see—her dying the one signal she wasn’t alone. It turns into chillingly clear that the individual accountable should additionally work for Miss Brickett’s, making everybody a suspect.

Marion Lane, a first-year Inquirer-in-training, finds herself drawn ever deeper into the investigation. When her good friend and colleague is framed for the crime, to clear his identify she should type by the hidden alliances at Miss Brickett’s and secrets and techniques courting again to WWII. Masterful, intelligent and deliciously suspenseful,
Marion Lane and the Midnight Homicide is a recent tackle the Agatha Christie-style locked-room homicide thriller, with an thrilling new heroine detective.