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The Cipher of the Tomb: A New Haven University Locked-Room Mystery

The Cipher of the Tomb: A New Haven University Locked-Room Mystery

Bureau, The Glitch

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798191831145
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New Haven, 1931. A storm severs the only bridge to Blackwood University, sealing the campus off from the world for six days, and inside the windowless tomb of its oldest secret society, Professor Alistair Thorne is found dead in a room bolted from within.

No window. No second door. No way in, and no way out, save the one the killer never needed to use. Thorne had spent his final weeks assembling proof of a fraud buried deep in the society's trust, a discovery that made him dangerous to men who had spent a century believing themselves untouchable.

Inspector Reginald Vance does not believe in accidents, and he does not believe in doors that lock themselves. As the university's administration closes ranks and its most powerful men demand his silence, Vance must read the small, human tells that a locked room cannot hide: a rotated ring, a smoothed necktie, a bitten lip. Somewhere among six suspects with six private reasons to want Thorne gone, one of them built a murder like an architect, and forgot that architecture always shows its seams.

A fair-play Golden Age mystery for readers who miss the quiet discipline of the classic whodunit: every clue is on the page, and the truth was always there to be caught before the confession comes.

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