The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery

Would anyone commit violent murder for one musty old book? A famous American book collector, his body a mass of battered flesh, was found at the bottom of Harlesden Scar on the lonely Yorkshire moors.

It had all the signs of being an accident but Essenheim’s nephew and Captain Mannering believed it was a mysterious and sinister murder.

They felt that the acquisition, by the doctor, of a certain long-neglected volume, had some strange bearing on his death.

Solemnly dedicating themselves to the task of running down the murderer, these two young men started off on a chase which had so far thwarted Scotland Yard.


Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a journalist and author of more than 220 books on a wide variety of subjects, including over 100 detective stories, including bibliomystery, The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery.

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