Death at Low Tide
Death at Low Tide is a 1938 detective novel by Cecil Street, who wrote as Miles Burton. It is the seventeenth book in the Golden Age series about amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard.
In a small West Country port, a ferryman finds the harbour master’s body at low tide. The murdered man had plans to transform the seaside town into an industrial port, making him many enemies. Inspector Arnold and Merrion investigate and uncover the killer.
The Times Literary Supplement praised it as perhaps the author’s best work, while The Observer noted that Burton remains faithful to a Crofts-style, austere approach.
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