num_pages: 255
description: Marsh House Upperton EnglandHay Smith editor of The Daily Record is been dead in the private study of Sir James Sitheby. In his hands are the torn fragments of confidential Foreign Office documents. How Smith came to possess these documents is a mystery but not as much of a mystery as which of Sir Jamess house-guests murdered the editor. So when Inspector Brews arrives at the scene soon after the tragedy having been summoned to Marsh House by a mysterious telephone call from Hay Smith earlier in the afternoon he faces one of his toughest cases yet... Originally published in 1931 in Collinss celebrated Crime Club imprint this is a classic British mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.
language: English
title: Death of an Editor
publisher: Black Heath Editions