The Cheltenham Square Murder

Poor Superintendent William Meredith can’t get any rest even when on holiday. In The Cheltenham Square Murder, Meredith is visiting crime writer Aldous Barnet. (They first met in The Sussex Downs Murder, the second book in the Meredith series; this book is the third). However, when the a resident of......more

Ordinarily if a murder is committed with a bow and arrow the field of suspects would be narrowed considerably, but not in this classic case. The people of Cheltenham Square are mad for archery, and all the suspects belong to the local archery club. The local police Inspector is a bit of a bungler, s......more

Another excellent topographical mystery from John Bude, this one revolves around a fictional square in Cheltenham and the author uses his local knowledge (he once lived in Cheltenham) to enhance the air of mystery. Regency Square has a strange lot of residents with all manner of tensions affecting th......more

Third in the series of mysteries featuring Inspector Meredith by English author Ernest Carpenter Elmore, who wrote as John Bude, The Cheltenham Square Murder is in some ways the typical golden age murder with a closed circuit of suspects in a small tight-knit neighbourhood, but it still has its nove......more

This is the first story I've read with Inspector Meredith and I'm completely out of order in his series. This is book three but I've come to it as part of The British Library Crime Classics (which I'm working my way through & recommend). It's written in such a way that reading the first two books do......more