The Crimson Scarf: A Tale of Intrigue and Murder

December 1938. Reginald Hargrove, chairman of the Burma Exploration Company, gathers his directors for Christmas supper at his Mayfair townhouse. By midnight, one of them is dead.For fans of Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz, and the golden age of detective fiction.Julian Blackwood has spent twenty years turning other people's secrets into his own currency. Tonight he is found in the cloakroom, strangled with his own crimson scarf. The snow has sealed the house, and his killer is still inside it - and before the night is out, they strike again.Hargrove has spent years helping Scotland Yard with matters they'd rather have handled quietly. He has never had one in his own drawing room - and he has never had to ask whether his own decisions, made long ago and far away, set the whole thing in motion.But the hardest question isn't who killed Julian Blackwood. It's what a decent man does once he knows the answer.