The Noose

A gentleman sleuth heads to the English countryside to save an innocent man from execution in this Golden Age detective fiction classic.

In five days, Daniel Bronson is to be hanged for a murder he didn’t commit. With both his appeal and petition for reprieve having been rejected, his wife Selma turns to the one man who can save her husband’s life . . .

Col. Anthony Gethryn, formerly of the secret service, is renowned for his deductive talents and skill for solving puzzling mysteries. While on holiday in southern Spain, he is called home to London where a guest awaits in his library. After Selma Bronson convinces Gethryn of her husband’s innocence, the gentleman detective heads to the countryside to find the real killer. It’s race against the clock before Daniel’s date with the gallows.

“MacDonald is at once a craftsman of writing, whose prose, characterization and evocation of mood (comic or terrible) might be envied by the most serious literary practitioners.” —Anthony Boucher, author of Nine Times Nine

Originally published in 1930.