The Wintringham Mystery, Anthony Berkeley
The Wintringham Mystery, Anthony Berkeley
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The Wintringham Mystery

Author: Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar

Narrator: Mike Grady

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2021

Synopsis

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve! Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephew – who recognises Stephen from his former life – decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than bridge. Then Cicely disappears! With Lady Susan reluctant to call the police about what is presumably a childish prank, Stephen and the plucky Pauline Mainwaring take it upon themselves to investigate. But then a suspicious death turns the game into an altogether more serious affair… This classic winter mystery incorporates all the trappings of the Golden Age – a rambling country house, a séance, a murder, a room locked on the inside, with servants, suspects and alibis, a romance – and an ingenious puzzle. First published as a 30-part newspaper serial in 1926 – the year was published, was written by Anthony Berkeley, founder of the famous Detection Club. Also known as , the ran the story as a competition with a prize of £500 (equivalent to £30,000 today) for anyone who guessed the solution correctly. Nobody did – even Agatha Christie entered and couldn’t solve it. Can you?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Belinda on June 29, 2022

4,25 sterren- English Ebook I love mysteries with rich crotchety old ladies. This book gives us Lady Susan, who has tons of valuable jewelry, a big estate, and heirs she doesn’t think much of. And I love country house mysteries. This country house has a secret priest hole, electric lighting prone to......more

Goodreads review by Lady Wesley on April 08, 2022

Review of the audiobook. 3.5 stars rounded up. This was fun to listen to, although like some other mysteries that were published as serials, it is longer than it needed to be. It was full of (mostly) appealing characters and has all of the expected elements of the classic British country house myster......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 22, 2021

This book had everything for me. A Country House, A Mystery, Secret Passages, A Weekend Party... A well written and fun classic crime novel. Set in an old country pile over the course of a house party where one of the guests decides to play with magic.... Luckily, down on his luck but plucky Stephen i......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on January 17, 2025

This mystery had its improbable moments but it’s written in a lively style and the protagonist, Stephen Munro, makes a very congenial companion along the way. Published in the 1920s, it’s reminiscent of Jeeves-and-Wooster stories and even Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, though written with less depth an......more

Goodreads review by talia ♡ on November 25, 2023

okay, besides being a really good and entertaining mystery, this book was funny as FUCK ---------- early winter means that i morph into an 80 year old grandpa wearing knit sweaters all day, reading the coziest of classic mysteries, staying in my reading chair, and drinking my array of fancy teas— AKA......more

Quotes

‘Detection and crime at its wittiest – all Berkeley’s stories are amusing, intriguing and he is a master of the final twist.’Agatha Christie ‘Anthony Berkeley is the supreme master not of the “twist” but of the “double-twist”.’ Milward Kennedy in the

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