The Dead of Winter

David Stuart Davies
Works of: Fiction

Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first in a series of Golden Age mysteries.
Having survived the First World War and been decorated for his efforts, Rupert Wilde is now back in civvy street wondering what to do with his life. On a whim, he accepts his Aunt Julia’s invitation to a Christmas house party at her home, Pelham House in the wilds of rural Norfolk. He takes with him his new associate Kishen Chabra, a young Oxford educated Indian whom he met when he rescued him from a violent mugging. Little did Wilde know that there would be murder, intrigue and mutilated bodies awaiting him behind the ancient walls of Pelham House. Wilde and Kishen turn detective to get to the bottom of these puzzling and ghastly felonies.