Fog of Doubt (2) (The Inspector Cockrill Mysteries #5)

By: Christianna Brand

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Synopsis: The Golden Age author of Green for Danger delivers &“a mystery in the classic Christie-Carr-Queen manner . . . An outstanding tour de force&” (The New York Times). Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house when Raoul was killed, but all were within a fog-choked London mile. Rosie calls in the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to clear the family&’s name, but what he finds is a twisted clan of seven people, each as likely to laugh at a murder as commit one.