Cirrus@Austlit

'A fun, new detective novel by Kel Richards where the sleuth is C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia. C. S. Lewis (known to all his friends as “Jack”), his brother Major Warren Lewis (known as “Warnie”) and one of Jack’s students, Tom Morris, are on holiday in the English countryside.When they go to the bank they unwittingly enter a crime scene – a murder has just been committed in the vault. The three out of towners become suspects and must conduct their own investigation to clear their names. C. S. Lewis eventually solves the seemingly impossible crime by applying his razor sharp mind to the subtle clues. A tale that twists and turns in the tradition of the golden age of English murder mysteries like Agatha Christie and Midsommer Murders. Add Kel’s trademark humour and it’s an entertaining baffler!' (Publication summary)

'The second instalment in the fun, new detective novel series by Kel Richards where the sleuth is C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia. A tale that twists and turns in the tradition of the golden age of English murder mysteries like Agatha Christie and Midsommer Murders. Add Kel’s trademark humour and it’s an entertaining baffler!' (Publication summary)

'The year is 1935. Clive Staples Lewis (known to his friends as “Jack”) and his brother Warren (known as “Warnie”) are visiting their friend young Tom Morris at Nesfield Cathedral School—where Jack is to be guest speaker at the school’s speech night. They become eyewitnesses to a murder—an impossible murder. They see a man stabbed to death by an unseen assailant, and see his body fall from the rooftop... but the body doesn’t hit the ground until the following day! Once again Jack’s nibble brain is co-opted by the police as they try to explain the seemingly impossible.' (Publication summary)

'It’s a Thursday evening in 1936. Clive Staples Lewis (known to all his friends as “Jack”) is hosting a gathering of that well-known literary group, The Inklings. Among the regulars are his brother Warnie, J. R. R. Tolkien, Neville Coghill, Hugo Dyson and Adam Fox. Two visitors are also attending – Jack’s old pupil Tom Morris and an undergraduate named Auberon Willesden.

'The following morning Willesden is found murdered in his room in Magdalen, though both the door and the windows were locked from the inside. And not only has he been murdered: he has been beheaded – and the head is missing!

'Who killed the student?

'And why?

'And, more baffling still – how was it done?

'It’s a puzzle that will tax the brilliant ingenuity of Jack and his fellow Inklings to the limit.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.