The Mystery at Orchard House

Joan Coggin. Rue Morgue Press, $14.95 (188pp) ISBN 978-0-915230-54-9

As part of their Vintage Mystery series, Rue Morgue offers the first U.S. publication of The Mystery at Orchard House: A Lady Lupin Mystery (1945), by Joan Coggins (1898-1980). In this sequel to Who Killed the Curate? (1944), set on the eve of WWII, the kind-hearted, scatterbrained Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings investigates a crime wave at a country hotel in Kent.

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