Status Updates From The Listerdale Mystery

2. Philomel Cottage ****. Alix Martin has married the well-off Gerald Martin on a whim, abandoning her first real love Dick Windyford. Dick warns her that Gerald seems suspicious and Alix begins to suspect that he is a “Bluebeard” who has murdered previous wives for their life insurance. Adapted for the stage as The Stranger. First published in The Grand Magazine, Issue 237 in November 1924.

1. The Listerdale Mystery ***. The widow St. Vincent and her two children move onto the Listerdale manor for only a nominal rental fee. Lord Listerdale is rumoured to be off in East Africa, but son Rupert St. Vincent suspects something that more sinister is behind the circumstances. Then he discovers why that is the case. First published in The Grand Magazine, Issue 250 in December 1925.