Death of an Editor

"Inspector Brews, having been summoned to Marsh House to meet the chief editor of The Daily Record, instead finds Hay Smith's body, still clutching the torn corners of several sheets of paper, near to an open window in the newspaper proprietor, Sir James Sitheby's, study. Brews is faced with a motey crew of suspects at Sir James' country house -- including journalists, an editor, a gossip-writer and a novelist, all seemingly with an axe to grind." -- Back cover.