About the Book : The Middle Temple Murder
A dead man and just one clue, a piece of paper with an address
In this classic work of detective fiction written more than a century ago, young
sub-editor Frank Spargo is one of the earliest if not the first protagonist of a
sub-genre the investigative journalist!
Spargo, who works at The Watchman, a leading Fleet Street newspaper, leaves the
office after the London edition has been 'put to bed. Passing through the Middle
Temple, off Fleet Street, he stumbles on the body of an unidentified elderly
gentleman who has been bludgeoned to death.
Despite the police assuming