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In the cathedral town of Selchester, where everything happens according to schedule, no one can even remember when anything occurred as shocking as a murder. However, one ordinary November morning, the regular pattern of life in a peaceful English village is suddenly disturbed by an unusual and inexplicable murder. The body of Mr. Postlethwaite, is found, bashed over the head with a hammer, inside the private room behind his office where the last legal work Mr. Postlethwaite did the day before, it seems, was to visit Sir James Cardyne, a local landowner, at his nearby country house in order to draw up a new will for him. Incidental to this major catastrophe are the mysterious disappearances of large sums of money and the discovery of an eleventh-hour will which is to change the direction of many lives. This is a complex, carefully plotted, and well-written mystery with unusual depth in its storytelling.

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"Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction.Fletcher's first books published were poetry. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and went on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell.Fletcher published multiple crime fiction novels during the ""Golden Age of Detective Fiction,"" namely his The Middle Temple Murder (1919) which served as the basic formulaic template for writing detective fiction novels; though, this particular novel (in addition to many of his others) did not share many general traits with those that characterize this particular literary era."

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