Writing was always important to him and very early on he published articles in newspapers and magazines. Due to family circumstances he was unable to go to university and started work in the Housing Department of Bristol City Council. He lived virtually all his life in Bristol and was a 'scholarship boy' boarder at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school. Investigating the killing, Tremaine is quick to realise that however handsome a couple the Carthallows were, and however extravagant a life they led, beneath the surface there’s a pretty devil’s brew…įrancis Duncan is the pseudonym for William Walter Frank Underhill, who was born in 1914. Luckily for the Inspector, amateur criminologist Mordecai Tremaine has an uncanny habit of being in the near neighbourhood whenever sudden death makes its appearance. Inspector Penross of the town constabulary is, however, less than convinced by Helen Carthallow’s story – but has no other explanation for the incident that occurred when the couple were alone in their clifftop house. Not only that, but his wife has confessed to firing the fatal shot. But this time it’s not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity – it’s the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasĪdrian Carthallow, enfant terrible of the art world, is no stranger to controversy.
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