Secrets Can't Be Kept: A Bobby Owen Mystery [Paperback]

Deep in bucolic Wychshire something dreadful is stirring &

The disappearance of a club-footed and inquisitive youth leads to a tangle involving two instances of stolen jewels, a water-colour which may be the most remarkable picture ever painted & and eventually to the discovery of a body in a forest with a smell of rotting, a smell of things decaying. The scene abounds with the intense, the afflicted, and the darkly humorous in classic Punshon style. But the murderer himself is on a collision cause with fate  aided of course by Inspector Bobby Owen.

Secrets Cant be Kept was first published in 1944, the twentieth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

What is distinction? & in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time. Dorothy L. Sayers

Nineteen forty-six starts off well with this specimen of the leisurely detailed school at its soundest, with an ending which & may yet chill your blood San Francisco Chronicle

A fine example of sound detective work New York Times Book Review