When Joseph Marks, the crime novelist, is a dinner guest at “The Chestnuts”, the conversation naturally turns to murder – in fiction and in fact. Sir Oscar Horton is amused to find his guests enumerating the many motives they might have for wishing him dead. But when Sir Oscar is found murdered, his guests' discussion takes on a very real significance for Pryme, the Chief Constable assigned to the case. Interviewing Joseph Marks as a matter of routine, Pryme is astounded when the novelist not only claims to have solved the murder, but also to have written up the solution as a novel… Originally published in 1933, this is a highly unusual murder mystery by Lewis George Robinson, who also wrote as George Limnelius. All of Robinson’s crime novels are available from Black Heath Editions.