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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"This is another entry in the attractive, period-style paperbacks in the British Library Crime Classics series. Pair Murder in Piccadilly with Freeman Wills Crofts' Antidote to Venom, also notable... Read Full Overview

Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.

Bobbie Cheldon, of the wealthy and distinguished Cheldon family, yearns for better circumstances than those of his life at Galahad Mansions, where he dwells with his mother in the 'hinterlands of Fulham'. Bobbie is twenty-three years old and has yet to hold down a job, instead... Read Full Overview

Bobbie Cheldon hopes for a happy marriage when he falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang nightclub. However, Nancy has plans for her future that are more worldly: She's not so much drawn to Bobbie as she is to the fortune he hopes to inherit.