Death of an Author — E.C.R. Lorac

Vivian Lestrange, a successful but reclusive crime fiction writer, is reported missing by his secretary Eleanor Clarke. Soon afterwards Lestrange's housekeeper also disappears. But is Clarke herself Lestrange, trying to drum up publicity? Inspectors Bond of the local police and Warner of Scotland Yard join forces to try and solve the mystery. Before long it becomes clear that this is a case of murder.