The Stately Home Murder (1969)

Classic murder mystery, set in a stately home. A public tour finds a body in the armory, and the local police inspector has an interesting time sorting through the suspects, most of them related to the earl. ( )

the police inspector is very droll but the mystery is a bit ho-hum. but it was quite funny. ( )

Third in the Inspector Sloan series.

Back Cover Blurb:
Inspector Sloan tiptoes through the halls of Ornum House hoping his impeccable powers of observation might reveal who murdered the family archivist. ( )

The beginning of this mystery is classic. A very rambunctious boy who came with his mom on a tour of Ornum House gets split from the group. The group goes down into the armoury, where there is a display of several suits of armor. The boy is there, playing around with the armor, and as he opens the visor on one of them, what's there to meet him but the face of a dead man. So...in comes Inspector Sloan, but solving the crime isn't going to be easy with a list of suspects and motives for the murder.

I'll rate this one as average; it's good, but there really wasn't a whole lot of room for the story to be more developed (imho). Recommended for those who like police procedurals and British mystery in general. ( )

Now that I've finished it, I think I've read it before. It was good. Fairly witty, kind of a tongue in cheek homage to traditional British mysteries. ( )