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Alfred Walter Stewart
aunt
Author_J J Connington
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Clinton Driffield
crime fiction
detective novel
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The Murder Room
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- ISBN 9781471906275
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The terms of her father's will tie Joyce to her Aunt Evelyn until she is 25 - or Evelyn will inherit the entire estate. But Joyce wants to marry Leslie, and the money she will eventually inherit would be a considerable help to him in his career.
Aunt Evelyn is a violent drunk, and one evening Joyce speculates to Leslie that if she fended of one of her aunt's violent attacks and her aunt died of 'one of her heart attacks' she could hardly be held accountable - could she?
Leslie isn't really sure. And the next day Aunt Evelyn dies suddenly.
Alfred Walter Stewart, who wrote under the pen name J. J. Connington, was born in Glasgow, the youngest of three sons of Reverend Dr Stewart. He graduated from Glasgow University and pursued an academic career as a chemistry professor, working for the Admiralty during the First World War. Known for his ingenious and carefully worked-out puzzles and in-depth character development, he was admired by a host of his better-known contemporaries, including Dorothy L. Sayers and John Dickson Carr, who both paid tribute to his influence on their work. He married Jessie Lily Courts in 1916 and they had one daughter.
