An Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life It's March 1934 & Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux However a seemingly senseless murder puts her reputation & even her life under threat An Expert in Murder is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers of crime & an atmospheric detective novel in its own right