"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was!"
The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are invited by Lionel Fonders to a shooting-party at Chustable Manor, where the other guests are mostly fellow-writers of various types. But Penny and Vincent become embroiled in a vexing murder case when their host is fatally shot in the field. Fonders was not generally beloved, but it is Vincent himself who becomes the chief suspect in his host's unnatural death.
In his attempt to clear himself, he enlist the help of clever attorney and amateur sleuth William Power to find the fiend who put paid to Fonders. With so many jealous authors at hand, the field of suspicion is wide. Can you keep pace with Power?
"Nearly watertight impeccability" Observer
"Henrietta Clandon's novels are always welcome. She has developed a style of her own in crime fiction." Anthony Berkeley