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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.
Sub-genres
Other books by Fiona Veitch Smith


Murder of an Oxford Scientist

Murder at the Art Gallery

Murder on Lexington Avenue

Murder at the Old Vic Theatre

A Front-Page Murder

The Pyramid Murders

The Pantomime Murders

The Crystal Crypt

The Art Fiasco

The Cairo Brief

The Death Beat

The Kill Fee

The Jazz Files

Murder at Winterton Hall

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