A Fielding

The Charteris Mystery A Fielding

- 'Fielding is one of the ablest crime novelists practicing the art today' NEW YORK TIMES - A classic Golden Age detective story by a well-regarded novelist whose real name has recently been revealed as Dorothy Feilding, a contemporary of Agatha Christie - 'A fine mystery' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT When Rose Charteris is found with a broken neck in a quarry near her father's country estate, the death is explained as 'misadventure'. The few people who knew her well have their doubts, but if she has been murdered, why and by whom? Enter Chief Inspector Pointer of Scotland Yard, incognito, who uncovers evidence of murder that takes him to Genoa and the Italian Tyrol in search of the truth. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A. Fielding was a well-regarded Golden Age of Crime novelist. Fielding wrote 27 detective novels between 1924 and 1944, most featuring Chief Inspector Pointer, and published by the prestigious Collins Crime Club and top US publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. Beyond this, and the fact that the name 'A. Fielding' was a pseudonym, the writer's true identity was as deeply mysterious as a plot-line from one of his (or her) books. Recent research however, has revealed that A. Fielding was in fact Dorothy Feilding, an English woman who lived in Kensington, London. However, despite the discovery of her real name, now accepted by the British Library's Main Catalogue, we do not know a great deal more about the enigmatic novelist. Dorothy disappears from the written record a few years after the publication in 1944 of her final book, POINTER TO A CRIME. PRAISE FOR 'A. FIELDING': 'An exceptionally well-wrought detective story' NEW YORK TIMES; 'Fielding is a master in the detective story game' THE MORNING POST.