Turn of the Table

Jonathan Stagge

февр. 2022 г. · The Doctor Westlake Mysteries Книга 4 · Open Road Media

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The country doctor takes his sleuthing into the spiritual realm when otherworldly goings-on strike close to home in this classic Golden Age mystery.
 
Summer finds Dr. Hugh Westlake taking over another doctor’s patients and living in his house. His next-door neighbors are a wealthy and influential family in the community, including leading investment banker Bruce Bannister. And soon, Hugh is drawn into quite the family drama . . .
 
A nurse has joined the Bannisters to take care of the ailing Bruce. Not only is she the niece of his late first wife, but she’s a psychic to boot. When one of her séances leads to Bruce’s death, it’s by a most unnatural cause: poison, pointing to either suicide or murder. As Hugh investigates this bizarre mystery, another one soon unfolds. He’s attacked by someone outside of their house in a thoroughly macabre manner: his neck is bitten. Now Hugh has to resurrect ghosts from the family’s past to uncover the truth about a potential murderer, a possible vampire, and a snake in the grass . . .
 
“Spiritualism and a maniac provide high scented red herrings. Suspense well-handled and solution satisfactory.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick, and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912–1987), Richard Wilson Webb (1901–1966), Martha Mott Kelley (1906–2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902–1984) wrote detective fiction. Most of the stories were written together by Webb and Wheeler, or by Wheeler alone. Their best-known creation is amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.