Why a Booktrail?
1930s: Thirteen – unlucky for some…
Thirteen Guests
Why a Booktrail?
1930s: Thirteen – unlucky for some…
What you need to know before your trail
On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate – but John is nursing a secret of his own.Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed, and a man strangled. Death strikes more than one of the house guests, and the police are called. Detective Inspector Kendall’s skills are tested to the utmost as he tries to uncover the hidden past of everyone at Bragley Court.T
Travel Guide
Bragley Court
Mile Bottom, Flensham and other places in the book are fictional
This is a mystery novel set firmly in the age of Golden Crime fiction. A steam train arrives at a country station, a stranger waits an a nearby inn, 12 people are invited to spend time at the local manor house, but an injured man at the station is also invited to join them, in order to recuperate, so he becomes the unlucky thirteenth guest.
The group go hunting, there are meals, secrets behind closed doors and servants listening when really they should not.
Murder comes a calling in the lush green British countryside..
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Thirteen Guests
Destination: England, Surrey Author/Guide: J. Jefferson Farjeon Departure Time:1930s
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