Tragedy at Ravensthorpe | |
Author: | J.J. Connington |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sir Clinton Driffield |
Genre: | Detective |
Release Date: | 1927 |
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Preceded By: | Murder in the Maze |
Followed By: | Mystery at Lynden Sands |
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe is an 1927 detective novel by the British writer Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] It is the second in a series of seventeen novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield following on from Murder in the Maze.[2] The American edition was published in Boston by Little, Brown and Company.[3]
During a fancy dress party at the country estate of Ravensthorpe, an attempt is made to rob the museum room of the house containing the house's valuable collection. The main target seems to be some medallions about to be sold to an American millionaire. Sir Clinton, an old friend of the family and a guest at the party, takes over the investigation. When two deaths follow in the wake of the failed robbery, he works to establish what connection they may have with the valuable collection.