Title: Die all, die merrily
Description: Richard Hoysden's body is discovered in his country flat, a revolver beside him and a bullet through the head, apparently a suicide. Missing from the room is a tape of Hoysden's last moments on which he confesses to the murder of a young woman. Lady Drombone, a member of Parliament and the dead man's aunt, hires Carolus to help suppress the evidence. He must reconstruct the confusing circumstances in order to solve this baffling crime.
Subjects: Carolus Deene (Fictitious character), Fiction, History teachers, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Deene, carolus (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction, Teachers, fiction
Places: England