The Billiard Room Mystery - Flynn, Brian
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A sharp turn of the lamp, a hush in the billiard room, and a mystery that refuses to let go. The Billiard Room Mystery invites you to follow a determined sleuth through smoke-filled parlours and candlelit corridors, where every chalked cue and whispered ruse hides a clue. In this classic mystery, Alpha Editions revives a tale that blends deft puzzle solving with keen social observation. The form rewards patient readers who relish the slow-burning tension of a crime thriller, the intimate pressure of detective suspense, and the sly wit that turns parlour intrigue into a resonant study of…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A sharp turn of the lamp, a hush in the billiard room, and a mystery that refuses to let go. The Billiard Room Mystery invites you to follow a determined sleuth through smoke-filled parlours and candlelit corridors, where every chalked cue and whispered ruse hides a clue. In this classic mystery, Alpha Editions revives a tale that blends deft puzzle solving with keen social observation. The form rewards patient readers who relish the slow-burning tension of a crime thriller, the intimate pressure of detective suspense, and the sly wit that turns parlour intrigue into a resonant study of motive, memory, and truth. With aVictorian era setting and a turn of century England ambience, the narrative speaks to both casual readers and historical mystery fans, echoing the style cherished by sherlock holmes fans and Conan Doyle-inspired tastes without lapsing into pastiche. Its literary merit rests in how finely wrought character, atmosphere, and puzzle interlock, offering more than a mere reprint. This edition is a restoration for today's and future generations, curated as a cultural treasure and a keeper of literary craft. Out of print for decades, it now returns as a tangible doorway to a vanished world. For collectors and lovers of crime fiction alike, The Billiard Room Mystery is a rare delight that stands beside the best mystery fiction of its era.
Autorenporträt
Brian Flynn was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching "Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls" in the evenings, and acting in his spare time. It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time "mediocre in the extreme", he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author's wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery. The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 54 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst.