October 1936. Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, for the seemingly simple case of recovering certain letters stolen from the king’s intimate friend Wallis Simpson. There is no mystery about who has taken these letters – it is a woman called Mrs. Raymond Harkness, a former mistress of the king and a close friend of Edward’s.
When Edward goes down to Haling, the country house of conservative M.P. Leo Scannon where Mrs. Harkness is also a house guest, he cannot guess that retrieving stolen goods is to be complicated by a murder. Edward’s friend and fellow sleuth, the journalist Verity Browne, returned from the savagery of the Spanish Civil War, welcomes the distraction of helping Edward investigate what suddenly becomes a double murder.
As both Edward and Verity dig further into the murders, they also find themselves embroiled in political protest and the fight against fascism. But will the unravelling of the truth behind the Hollow Crown provide the real key to their investigation?
Trope: Detectives, Whodunnit
