The Ha-Ha Case

Connington, J J

ISBN 13: 9798689961330

Published by Spitfire Publishers, 2020

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264pp. Pictorial light card covers. 8vo. Volume neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ha-Ha Case
• Publisher: Spitfire Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798689961330
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction - Crime, Mysteries and Thrillers

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Synopsis

• ‘A remarkably high standard of ingenuity and workmanship’ NEW YORK TIMES • ‘First-class’ FRANCIS ILES, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH •‘As a maker of watertight puzzles J.J. Connington has no superior’ THE DAILY MAIL • First republication in the USA for almost a century. • Includes all the original illustrations, critical to the plot. Johnnie Brandon is found dead while out shooting rabbits with his friends, and the problem is: Accident, Suicide, or Murder? It is all made very complicated by the financial entanglements in which his rapscallion of a father has tied up the estate, and by the fact that a gentlemanly lunatic with large gaps in his memory wanders on to the scene at the crucial moment. Time for the acumen of Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield to be brought to bear on the case. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. J.J. Connington was the pen name of Alfred Walter Stewart. Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1880 and pursued an academic career as a chemistry professor whilst writing twenty-four critically acclaimed detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work. 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. Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield was his most famous literary creation and starred in seventeen novels. He died in 1947. PRAISE FOR ‘THE HA-HA CASE: ’‘A sound and interesting plot, very carefully and ingeniously worked out’ THE SUNDAY TIMES; ‘A work in every way worthy of J.J. Connington’s high reputation as a detective writer’ DOROTHY L. SAYERS; ‘The means of the murder are most ingeniously concealed’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT; ‘J.J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction’ THE SPECTATOR; ‘J.J. Connington has the art of writing delightful detective novels’ BALTIMORE EVENING SUN