House With Crooked Walls

Bookseller and amateur sleuth Theodore Terhune uncovers the strange history of a local house for its mysterious new owner, when a tragedy occurs. Is it an accident or murder? A Golden Age classic detective novel from 1942. “So you know House-on-the-Hill, Mr. Terhune?” Local bookseller and amateur detective Theodore Terhune is asked to investigate the history of an ancient Kentish manor house for its new owner, Dr. Vincent Salvaterra. Recently arrived from Panama, Salvaterra wants to know why the house was shunned by the locals and abandoned for nearly a century, despite commanding the best views in the county. Terhune digs deep into the house’s past and find more than one unsolved – and disturbing – mystery. When tragedy strikes the eccentric Salvaterra family in their new home, Terhune must determine if the cause is the gothic House-on-the-Hill itself, or whether a sinister plot if afoot. Bruce Graeme (1900-1982) was a pseudonym of Graham Montague Jeffries, an author of more than 100 crime novels and a founding member of the Crime Writer’s Association. He created six series sleuths, including bookseller and accidental detective Theodore Terhune, who’s eight adventures: Seven Clues in Search of A Crime; House with Crooked Walls; A Case for Solomon; Work for the Hangman; Ten Trails to Tyburn; A Case of Books; And a Bottle of Rum; and Dead Pigs at Hungry Farm are published by Moonstone Press. “So you know House-on-the-Hill, Mr. Terhune?” Local bookseller and amateur detective Theodore Terhune is asked to investigate the history of an ancient Kentish manor house for its new owner, Dr. Vincente Salvaterra. Recently arrived from Panama, Salvaterra wants to know why the house was shunned by the locals and abandoned for nearly a century, despite commanding the best views in the county. Terhune digs deep into the mansion’s past and find more than one unsolved—and disturbing—mystery, dating back hundreds of years. When tragedy later strikes the eccentric Salvaterra family in their new home, Terhune must determine if the cause is the Gothic House-on-the Hill itself, or whether a sinister human plot is afoot.