Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron
"Tracks in the Snow: Being the history of a crime by Charnwood" by Godfrey Benson is a detective novel published in 1906. When former diplomat Eustace Peters is found stabbed to death in his country estate, footprints in the fresh snow seem to point clearly to the gardener as the murderer. Narrated by Robert Driver, a rural rector, the investigation takes over a year to unravel and ultimately connects to Peters's mysterious imperial past abroad. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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