Title: Suicide excepted
Description: Inspector Mallett of the C.I.D. is on holiday at  Pendlebury Old Hall.  Although the Hall is a charming country hotel, his stay has been a disappointment. Room, food and service have been such a letdown that he eagerly anticipates the end of his holiday. His last trial is to sit and listen as the hotel boor, whose family once owned the house, sits down at his table. The next day the man is dead, an apparent suicide. Mallett's investigation of the suspicious death inadvertently embroils him in family passions and murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Mallett, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Detective and mystery stories, Inspector Mallett (fictitious character)
Places: England