num_pages: 231
description: That settles it thought Smith savagely. He shall be murdered even if I have to do it myself!The Hardstaffe family are not the nicest people in the world. In fact he - schoolteacher lothario and bully she - chronic malcontent - and their horsey unmarried adult daughter seem to be prime candidates for murder. A writer planning these deaths on paper at least and a young girl chased by old Hardstaffe are the only outsiders in a deliciously neat but nasty case.Blue Murder was the last of Harriet Rutland's mystery novels first published in 1942. This new edition the first in over 70 years features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.'(A) newcomer of exceptional promise' Howard Haycroft
language: English
title: Blue Murder
publisher: Dean Street Press