01800cam a2200289 i 4500 545499434 TxAuBib 20220104120000.0 200807t20211944||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020036131 9781464215094 trade paperback 146421509X trade paperback TxAuBib rda Lorac, E. C. R., 1894-1958, Checkmate to murder. Checkmate to murder / E.C.R. Lorac. Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2021] ©1944. pages ; cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier British Library crime classics "On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the portrait of his characterful sitter, bedecked in Cardinal's robes at the other end of the room. In the kitchen, the artist's sister is hosting the charlady of the miser next door. When the brutal murder of said miser is discovered by his Canadian infantryman nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is at the scene, faced with perplexing alibis and with the fate of the young soldier in his hands. In the search for the culprit, Macdonald and his team of detectives must figure out if one of the members of the studio party is somehow involved in the death, or if some other scurrilous neighbour could be responsible"-- Provided by publisher. 20220104. Mystery fiction. British Library crime classics.