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THE PORCELAIN FISH MYSTERY.CAMPBELL, HARRIETTE R.Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937., 1937
The dog barked at the beautiful porcelain fish and Brade knew then how tragic the affair was. He took the case because he had come down to the murder scene to buy the precious little Chinese object. He had stayed because he was the only one who understood the characters of the many odd people involved and the only one who seemed worried by the handkerchief and the absence of dust. The death of a great political figure is in itself sensational. His death in a fine country home, surrounded by fox-hunting people on one hand and radical literary people on the other made it even more sensational. It was a case that required the finest skill, the most delicate tact and Brade had those qualities.
Who let the dog in? When Selford Prentice is found murdered in his sitting room at Medbury Grange, there were suspects with motive and suspects with opportunity. Unfortunately, it appeared that there were no suspects with both. The crime has the county police baffled with the Chief Constable favoring one suspect and the inspector in charge of the case another. It is up to Simon Brade, expert in Chinese porcelain and amateur sleuth, to find the murderer, but with little in the way of clues, the solution may rest on the question, “Who let the Chen, the Cairn Terrier, in, and when did he start to bark to announce his master’s demise?”
