Where There Was Smoke: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery: 38 (The Anthony Bathurst Mysteries) - Softcover

Flynn, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191738212X ISBN 13: 9781917382120

Publisher: Dean Street Press Limited, 2025

Synopsis

"I never knew, till then, the possibilities inherent in spaghetti when controlled by an ingenious spirit." Anthony Bathurst

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With austerity holding the country in a vice-like grip, chemist Donald Finney is happy with any offer of work. Even though the proposal from the mysterious Mr Reheboam of £100 for a single night's work seems too good to be true, he never expected that it would be the last night of his life.

The cause of death is far from clear - there are no wounds on his body, but his skin is strangely discoloured - but the strangest things are what was found on his body. A strange note with the name of a local police inspector and a piece of cooked bacon rind - both curled up and hidden in his belly-button. As Anthony Bathurst races to decipher this strangest of dying messages, it becomes clear that Mr Reheboam's work is far from complete...

Where There Was Smoke was first published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.

About this title

About the Author

BRIAN FLYNN was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching "Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls" in the evenings, and acting in his spare time. It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time "mediocre in the extreme", he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author's wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery. The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 57 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dean Street Press Limited
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191738212X
• ISBN 13: 9781917382120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273