A Murder revisited mystery novel,

'Most immaterialists are a little mad. If you ever meet one, you should be most careful to keep your fingers crossed.' American-born John Wilson and his troop of distinguished friends were well known in the fashionable parts of London. And at their social gatherings the very latest fad was 'Immaterialism', and the quest for the perfect immaterial work of art - but what they hadn't expected to find was the perfect immaterial murder.

> The port area of London's River Thames is a tough neighbourhood but it is nevertheless shocked when Mary Holland is found dead, an apparent suicide using Lysol poison. Detective Sergeant Chandler believes it was murder and he makes investigations, but then he unaccountably disappears ...

A small rural community suspects — but does not substantiate — the murder of Farmer Marshall whose wife maintains a sullen silence after his disappearance. On a neighboring farm, Philipson, a dour and nervous war casualty, cannot remember the period in which the crime occurred; Yorke, his partner, helps to establish his guilt; while the local Vicar intercedes to bring the real criminal to book. Pleasantly punctilious. [Kirkus]