A Medium for Murder

It was a picture-postcard English village, but like all such villages, it had its share of secrets, scandals and tragedies. The Player murder, however, was seldom discussed: in fact, the whole unpleasant affair was as good as forgotten – or would have been if a visitor to the village hadn’t fed the local rumour mill with the startling information that the rather mysterious woman known as Mrs Edwina Charles had, ten years before, been the notorious clairvoyant, Madame Adele Herrmann, implicated in a sensational, unsolved murder case. And then the gossip really began. What had happened to the…