Breath of Suspicion

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Skeleton Staff

Elizabeth Ferrars

English · 2014 edition

Wealthy, disabled Roberta Ellison settles on Madeira; when she is suddenly widowed, her half-sister arrives to help but brings problems that escalate into violence and murder. A classic British mystery reissued by The Murder Room.

Fiction & Literature

Witness Before the Fact

Elizabeth Ferrars

English · 2014 edition

On Madeira, Alec Methven is found dead, his last meal apparently shared with someone anxious to conceal the fact — and a second death follows. A classic mystery by an author who loved the island.

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Past Caring

Robert Goddard

English · 2008 edition

Robert Goddard’s bestselling debut. At a lush villa on Madeira, a disgraced historian is hired to investigate the mysterious 1910 downfall of a former British cabinet minister — a quest that uncovers secrets and deaths still haunting a family.

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Tango in Madeira

Jim Williams

English · 2013 edition

Set in Madeira after WWI, a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his family’s failing wine business as the island fills with real figures of the era — an exiled emperor, Agatha Christie at Reid’s Hotel, George Bernard Shaw learning to tango — and a murder draws him in.