The Middle Temple Murder

A dead man lies in a moonlit lane beside the Middle Temple, one of London's ancient Inns of Court. Young reporter Frank Spargo nearly trips over the body on his way back to Fleet Street — and when the police identify the victim as John Marbury, a respected barrister, the case seems to write itself. But the deeper Spargo digs, the stranger the story becomes. Why was Marbury dining with a shady sporting gentleman on the night he died? Who is the guarded young actress who knows more than she says? And what does a decades-old crime have to do with the shattered face left on the cobblestones? Refusing to trust the official inquiry, Spargo follows the clues from London's legal chambers and gentlemen's clubs into the city's darkest corners, where a forgotten name waits to be found. Faithful in story and vivid in telling, this is J. S. Fletcher's classic whodunit made new for today's readers. Part of Timeless Classics.