The Death of a Millionaire

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. The Death of a Millionaire opens in the polished hush of Sugden's Hotel, where rank, money, and etiquette are observed with almost comic reverence—until a breakfast appointment with the formidable Lord Ealing turns into a murder inquiry. In Hugh Restington's suite, the bedroom is found wrecked, the air thick with signs of violence, and a missing Russian secretary, Rosenbaum, becomes the first suspect. But the deeper the investigation goes, the stranger it becomes: the "American guest" is revealed to be Hugh Radlett, a vanished millionaire whose identity hides a larger scandal of wealth, deception, and disappearance. Inspector Blaikie sees the case as his chance for glory, while Superintendent Wilson grows increasingly wary of the people around Radlett and of Lord Ealing's own secretive behavior. False leads, comic blunders, and suspicious trunks full of everything except what they seem to contain complicate the hunt, even as the search for Rosenbaum widens across Britain and beyond. As Wilson follows clues to France and confirms John Pasquett's alibi, the mystery shifts from a single hotel crime to a tangled web of motives, loyalties, and hidden histories. Witty, suspenseful, and sharply observant, this is a stylish murder mystery steeped in class satire and intrigue.