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The footsteps at the lock

The footsteps at the lock

CrimeMystery
Pages
248
Published
1928
Language
English

Synopsis

When Derek Burtell vanishes during a canoeing trip on the Thames, just before he's due to inherit a large sum, his insurance company sends their top investigator, Miles Bredon, to look into the case. What starts as a simple missing person inquiry quickly deepens into a complex mystery involving strange photographs, a baffling cipher, and naked footprints. Can Bredon uncover the truth behind Derek's disappearance and the subsequent vanishing of his cousin, Nigel, before the company has to pay out?

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

IntellectualTense
Locked RoomMystery Box

Genres

Crime Mystery

About the author

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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio. Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Dire...

Characters

Miles BredonProtagonist
Derek BurtellSupporting
Nigel BurtellSupporting
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