Kemp's Last Case

The new Lennox Kemp mystery Although now happily married and a doting father, Lennox Kemp is still unable to resist the lure of a mystery. Going through the affairs of the late Dr Ayres, his curiosity is aroused by a cache of letters and diaries referring to a twenty-year-old murder case which { because of the untimely death of the chief suspect { never came to trial. At the same time, and in apparently unconnected circumstances, Kemp is re-introduced at a dinner party to one Lettice Warrender; an old flame of sorts, and scion of a well-known local family. As Kemp pursues his independent inquiries into the horrible murder of little Rickie Fenwick, very much against the better judgement of his wife Mary, he is caught up matters far removed { and far more deadly { than the bread-and-butter of the average provincial solicitor . . .