The Sandycroft Mystery (Black Heath Classic Crime) (English Edition)

One night in April, the lives of the residents of Sandycroft, Colonel Bernage's country estate, are changed forever when Captain Darvill is found stabbed in the smoking-room. But who was the culprit? Could it be Bernage's niece, who was covertly married to the dead man? Or the Colonel's brother, who has wrestled for years with congenital homicidal mania? Or the Colonel's protégé , the artist Roden Bosworth, who disappears mysteriously on the night of the crime?

Originally published in 1890, this sensational Victorian murder mystery is sure to delight all fans of nineteenth-century crime fiction.