Mystery
The Unfinished Clue
1937·320 pages
A detestable general is murdered at a country-house weekend, leaving a houseful of ungrieving suspects and one unfinished clue.
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A detestable general is murdered at a country-house weekend, leaving a houseful of ungrieving suspects and one unfinished clue.
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It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate guest-list is enough to exasperate a saint, and irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith was nobody's idea of the perfect host. In fact he was absolutely frightful. He bullied his wife, Fay, grumped at his guests, refused gleefully to help his financially stricken indigent nephew, and positively blew his stack when his wayward son, Geoffrey, took up with a nightclub dancer, Lola de Silva, who was definitely N.Q....
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Sexual content
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Mild attraction and courtship subplot; kissing-level romance only
Violence & gore
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Stabbing murder; body found with blood, but little graphic detail
Profanity
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Rare mild period language; virtually no strong profanity
Substance use
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Social drinking typical of a 1930s country-house weekend
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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Not present
Occult / demonology
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Not present
Political content
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Period class snobbery and mild social insensitivity
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Domestic bullying and emotional cruelty by husband toward wife
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