The Crime at Black Dudley
by Margery Allingham
Prim Dr George Abbershaw weekends in musty mansion with secret passageways - only for beloved Meg. "Most dangerous and notorious criminal" holds peculiar household hostage for missing papers. In dark, guests pass dagger to re-enact ritual where dagger bleeds in hands of killer, chair-bound Colonel Coombes is stabbed dead. Vacuous Albert Campion babbles.
Release Date:
September 19, 1973