SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL: A DEVON MYSTERY (PB)

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings. While taking a break from his duties at his seaside bungalow in Devon, Ireton attempts to bribe his daughter’s lover Morrell to leave her alone so that she may instead marry the respectable clerk, Fred Barlow. It seems something about the deal must have gone amiss, however, when police are called to the Justice’s residence to find Morrell shot dead and the judge still holding a pistol…