A quiet English community is rocked to its core when a stranger comes to town and falls to his death from a gallery of the local cathedral. Was it suicide or was he pushed? Foul play is suspected, but with few clues to go on and no likely suspects, it appears that the bizarre crime may remain unsolved.J. S. Fletcher’s The Paradise Mystery is a classic British whodunit from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. A sophisticated genre author, Fletcher never relies on a larger-than-life...

All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and felt that it was that appearance for which the crowded court was waiting. Thanks to his own vivid and realistic specials in the Watchman, everybody there had already become well and thoroughly acquainted with the mass of evidence represented by the nine witnesses who had been in the box before Mr. Aylmore entered it. They were familiar, too, with the facts which Mr. Aylmore had permitted Spargo ...