The Four Defences

by J. J. Connington

Overview

An unidentified body is found in a blazing car. A man in the locality is missing. But the corpse in the car is not that of the missing man, though someone has made an uncommonly thorough job of faking it to seem so.

And just because his unknown opponent had gone to such lengths to prevent an investigation going further, Detective Mark Brand aka The Counsellor's 'satiable curiosity' is up ...

'As a maker of watertight puzzles Mr Connington has no superior' Daily Mail

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781471906381
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication date:	11/28/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	369 KB

About the Author

Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947), who wrote under the pen name J. J. Connington, was born in Glasgow, the youngest of three sons of Reverend Dr Stewart. He graduated from Glasgow University and pursued an academic career as a chemistry professor, working for the Admiralty during the First World War. 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. He married Jessie Lily Courts in 1916 and they had one daughter.