Death Comes to Perigord Author:John Ferguson Death Comes to Perigord is a detective story concerned with the disappearance and subsequent death of a man while under the care of a young doctor in the absence of the usual medical attendant. The story is set in the Channel Islands, among a mixed population of French and English, but its interest first lies in the discovery by t... more »he young locum of certain peculiarities in the dead body which flatly contradict each other. And the doubts thus raised are reinforced by the detective's discovery of a small peculiarity about the dead man's watch. Subsequent clues include a ship's figurehead, a perfumed handkerchief, a knife blade, a barking dog, a scrap of seaweed and a tennis ball that had been gilded. These apparently disconnected objects, Detective McNab, with the help of Dr. Dunn, builds up into a connected and coherent sequence which, step by step, reveals the part played by each article in the murder and leads to the identification of the real criminal.« less
A reprint of a 1931 mystery set in the Channel Islands off the coast of England. Foul play is suspected in the death of an old moneylender. A series of baffling and confusing clues keeps you in suspense and builds to a tense climax.