| Murder of a Martinet | |
| Author: | E.C.R. Lorac |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chief Inspector MacDonald |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club (UK) Doubleday (US) |
| Release Date: | 1951 |
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| Preceded By: | Accident by Design |
| Followed By: | The Dog It Was That Died |
Murder of a Martinet is a 1951 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.[1] [2] It is the thirty fifth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard. It was published in the United States by Doubleday under the alternative title of I Could Murder Her.[3]
In a manor house in the English countryside Muriel Farrington rules over her various grown children like a martinet, keeping them all in line whenever anyone threatens to dissent from her. When she is found dead, MacDonald is called in to cast his eye over several possible culprits.