Death for Madame

{{Short description|1946 novel}}

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| publisher = John Westhouse

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Death for Madame is a 1946 mystery detective novel by the British author Ruthven Todd, written under the pen name of R.T. Campbell.Royle p.301 It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs.Hanson p.170 It takes the form of a closed circle of suspects investigation. It has been republished in 2018 by Dover Publications.

Synopsis

After the aunt of an acquaintance of Stubbs is found strangled at the run-down boarding house she ran in Notting Hill, he takes it upon himself to launch an investigation to the continued irritation of Chief Inspector Bishop of Scotland Yard. The culprit appears to lie amongst her boarders, but all have alibis.

References

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Bibliography

  • Hanson, Gillian Mary. City and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery. McFarland, 2015.
  • Main, Peter. A Fervent Mind: The Life of Ruthven Todd. Lomax Press, 2018.
  • Royle, Trevor. The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan, 1983.

Category:1946 British novels

Category:British mystery novels

Category:British crime novels

Category:British thriller novels

Category:Novels by Ruthven Todd

Category:Novels set in London

Category:British detective novels

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