Suddenly at His Residence

Under the shadow of the ongoing blitz in London, the willful grandchildren of Sir Richard Marsh have descended upon Swanswater in Kent for a family gathering, and the finalising of the patriarch’s will. Frustrated with the disrespectful behaviour of his heirs, Marsh seems to resolve to cut them all out of their inheritance and descends to his outhouse to make the final arrangements.

'The peevish Sir Richard may have been fond of periodically disinheriting family members, but would one of them be irritated enough to murder him? The case falls to Inspector Cockrill, who soon gets drawn into a whirlwind of family secrets, resentments and not-so-idle wealth.' New York Times