In The Mayors Parlour

This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him.

• Was he eliminated for this reason?
• There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships.
• Lots of twists with a surprise murderer.
• The plot is cleverly centered around the inquest, which keeps being adjourned in hope of new evidence.