The Picture House Murders

Fiona Veitch Smith
Works of: Fiction

It’s 1929. Despite holding a degree in chemistry from Oxford, Miss Clara Vale is unable to land a job in science and is stuck behind a desk at a London library. She fears this will be the end of her scientific goals … until, unexpectedly, her uncle dies leaving her his private detective agency in Newcastle upon Tyne … and a laboratory.

Clara is unsure whether she should keep the agency or sell it. As she is trying to decide, one of her uncle’s clients comes to her for help with a case surrounding a local picture house. During a screening a fire erupts with tragic consequences. It seems at first an accident, but Clara soon begins to question if it was in fact a carefully orchestrated murder. She’s suddenly in the middle of a deadly mystery and will discover her scientific skills make her a sleuth to be reckoned with.

Set in the colourful world of early cinema, just as silent films are being replaced by talkies.

The first in a new golden age mystery series. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.