Death is No Sportsman

The banks of the Didder on a sunny summer afternoon when the trout are rising seem an unlikely place for a murderer to strike. But when the body of a local landowner is discovered it soon becomes apparent that there are a number of people with good reason to dislike him. Inspector White, always deeply suspicious of the country, is brought in from Scotland Yard. Although quick to disentangle the complex relationships linking the suspects and the victim, it is only by mastering the subtleties of fly fishing that he uncovers the evidence to lead him to the killer.

Detective story lovers and anglers alike will delight in this ingenious story set in the 1930s, which the Daily Mail described as a "fair play" thriller with no outrageously red herrings drawn across the trail. The identity of the murderer is really a surprise!