An English Murder (1951)
Blurb:
My review:
The
English
murder of the classic variety is the murder of an elderly aristocrat in
a
snow-bound country house. But for the
murder
to be even more English, the
detective must be a foreigner: here, the Hungarian Jew historian, Dr.
Bottwink—who knows more of
The murder—and the reasons behind it—are particularly English, relying on an ingenious use of income tax, politics, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and an obscure piece of British history.