The Cabinet of Curiosities

By Douglas Lindsay

A LOCKED ROOM.
AN AUDACIOUS THEFT.
A BLOODY CORPSE...

November 1954. Sir Henry Fox-Strangways has invited old friends and colleagues to Dartstone Manor to show off his cabinet of curiosities. Amongst a collection of artefacts from a thousand years of European history, the cabinet's centrepiece is the magnificent 12th-century astrolabe of Swiss astronomer, Albrecht Wolfe.

The guests assemble, dinner is served, music plays, and the cabinet of treasures is revealed. The following morning, however, reveals a grim scene. Behind the locked drawing room door, the Wolfe astrolabe is gone, and Sir Henry lies on the fireside rug, dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.

THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, a classic murder mystery set on the edge of Dartmoor, introduces Hilary Stamp, unflappable and courageous wartime SOE operative, turned brilliant private detective.

"Lindsay has a real ear for dialogue, and a highly visual imagination." Sunday Mirror

From the author of DI BUCHAN, DI WESTPHALL, AND THE VIKSTR M PAPERS

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H519GG5L
• ISBN13: 9798198012035
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"