The Norfolk Mystery

(Paperback)

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The first book in The County Guides to Murder Series.
The County Guides are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England.

The books are an odyssey through England and its history.

In each county, the protagonists Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley solve a murder.

The first book is set in Norfolk. The murder is in the vicarage.

There are 39 books and 39 murders to follow.

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Praise for The Norfolk Mystery:

A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties There is a touch of Sherlock Holmes and a dash of Lord Peter Wimsey, but the total is put together with a charm that is teasingly precious Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morely promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now Daily Mail

Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels when, in the 1930s, Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie were the queens of crime A brilliant first outing that leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard

Author Bio

Ian Sansom is the author of Paper: An Elegy and the Mobile Library Mystery series of novels. He is also a frequent contributor to the Guardian and the London Review of Books, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. The Sussex Murders is the fifth in his County Guide series, following The Norfolk Mystery, Death in Devon, Westmorland Alone and Essex Poison.