A Wild-Cat Scheme

"Grandpapa will certainly say it is one of your wild-cat schemes, Daddy, and I can't somehow see him in a submarine!"

When Kate Parker, the underhousemaid at Greystones in Dorsetshire, enters the library to open the shutters at the start of another day's work, she is shocked to discover the body of Eleanor Wentworth, the niece of her elderly master, Robert Preston. Suspecting that Eleanor's research into the family's history may hold the key to her murder, Inspector Margetson of the Yard secures a warrant for Robert's arrest. Preston's family, however, have other ideas, and soon Margetson finds himself embroiled in their "wild-cat scheme" to spirit the old man away from under the police's nose. But if Preston didn't murder Eleanor, who did? And what could have been the motive?

First published in 1930, this is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of detection.

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