Crime in Kensington — Christopher St. John Sprigg

“HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU THAT WE MUST APPEAR TO RUN THIS HOTEL AS A COMMERCIAL PROPOSITION?”



There is something amiss at the genteel Garden Hotel. New arrival Charles Venables overhears a threatening discussion between the proprietors. The prices are too low. The residents are jumpy. When the bedridden Mrs Budge disappears into thin air, it becomes clear that more than one inhabitant of the hotel has something to hide. A set of gruesome discoveries points to murder, and Charles must work with Detective Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard to prevent the killer from acting again.



Christopher St John Sprigg (1907-1937) was a witty and prolific writer who also published non-fiction under the pseudonym Christopher Caudwell. Crime in Kensington was the first of seven crime novels Sprigg wrote between 1933 and his death in February 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Other books featuring sleuth Charles Venables -- Fatality on Fleet Street, The Perfect Alibi and Death of a Queen -- are also available from Moonstone Press.