The Christening Cup: A Blackroyd Hall Mystery (The Blackroyd Hall Mysteries Book 2)

A christening at Blackroyd Hall. A silver cup, a spoken name — and a godfather dead before the photographs. October 1937. Cornelius Vane, godfather to the Ashcombe heir, raises the family's christening cup, drinks the ritual posset, and speaks the child's name aloud. Two hours later he is dead in the library — aconite in the dregs of the bowl. A complete fair-play whodunit in the classic manner, with a STOP page: stop, accuse — and only then turn the page. A standalone short mystery (about 20 pages) from the world of Murders at Blackroyd Hall.