This is your audiobook for February 2023. Our theme for our main book club read this month is “impossble crimes”, and so we’ve chosen this story to fit into that as well. This is a locked room puzzle from 1925, in which a man is stabbed to death inside a Turkish bath with nobody else around, and with a weapon that was seemingly never there in the first place.

Edgar Jepson was a journalist and writer who is probably best known today for his translations of the Arsene Lupin stories into English, but who did also write a lot of crime and adventure stories for the press. His collaborator for this tale, Robert Eustace, as a frequent co-author for Edwardian and golden age crime writers — he was a medical doctor who specialised in bringing scientific knowledge to detective ficiton. Two of his other notable collaborators were Dorothy L. Sayers, on the 1930 novel The Documents in the Case, and the Irish writer L.T. Meade, with whom he wrote dozens of mystery stories.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss this story with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.