Strange Ending (E.R. Punshon)

Punshon promises a criminal “fine dining” experience … and serves brown Windsor soup.

Music Tells All (E.R. Punshon)

Theme and limited variations in this Much Middle-ing Punshon.

The Attending Truth (E.R. Punshon)

Westshire hasn’t had a murder for 40 years, until an inoffensive commercial traveller is bashed on the head in a copse

The Golden Dagger (E.R. Punshon)

A load of Cobblers.

It Might Lead Anywhere (E.R. Punshon)

Bobby Owen encounters his most formidable adversary yet.

The Secret Search (E.R. Punshon)

Less a mystery than a gang feud in which Bobby Owen intervenes.

The House of Godwinsson (E.R. Punshon)

Gangsters and the rightful heir to the throne in a fast-paced case for Bobby Owen.

E.R. Punshon’s Crossword Mystery and the Nazis

This was part of my History Honours, in 2004. Britain in the 1930s is often typified as ignorant of the situation in Nazi Germany.  E.R. Punshon’s Crossword Mystery (1934) discusses the Terror: anti-Semitism, concentration camps and brutal oppression.  Would Punshon’s readership (the educated middle-class) have known of these things by the book’s publication in June …