num_pages: 248
description: A crime of a peculiarly mysterious nature was perpetrated some time last night in a block of flats called Abbey Court.Lady Judith Carew acted furtively on the night of the Denboroughs party. Her secret assignation at 9:30pm was a meeting to which she took a loaded revolver. The Abbey Court apartment building would play host to violent death that very night under cover of darkness. The killers identity remained a mystery though Lady Carew had a most compelling motive  and her revolver was left in the dead mans flatEnter the tenacious Inspector Furnival in the first of his golden age mysteries first published in 1923. Though there are many clues there are just as many red herrings and the case takes numerous Christie-esque twists before the murderer can be revealed. This new edition the first printed in over 80 years features an introduction from crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
language: English
title: The Abbey Court Murder
publisher: Dean Street Press