''The Tragedy at Freyne'' is a 1927
mystery
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detective novel
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by
Anthony Gilbert, the
pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. Her first novel under the pseudonym, it introduced the
amateur detective Scott Egerton who was her principal character until the creation of Arthur Crook in ''
Murder by Experts
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Synopsis
Sir Simon Chandos is found dead in his
library
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with a confession written in front of him and a bottle of
morphia
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tablets by his side, it appears to an obvious case of suicide. However one of the guests at the
country house notices a slight discrepancy and launches his own amateur investigation into the death.
References
Bibliography
* Magill, Frank Northen . ''Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2''. Salem Press, 1988.
*Murphy, Bruce F. ''The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery''. Springer, 1999.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
1927 British novels
British mystery novels
British thriller novels
Novels by Anthony Gilbert
Novels set in England
British detective novels
William Collins, Sons books
Dial Press books
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