Change For The Worse

Another puzzling mystery requires the expertise of Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin.

A botched burglary leads to murder...

The impressive estate of Fairlynch Manor is struggling to attract visitors. So its trustee, Katherine Ridley, suggests hosting an event showcasing artworks owned by the locals in the surrounding English village of Wellchester.

All seems to be going well until a shock visitor surprises Katherine.

And then, the next morning, the warden Francis Peck is found dead in the manor house.

Five of the paintings are also missing - but none of them appears to have been very valuable.

Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye struggle to unravel the mystery.

Who was the man who shocked Katherine? Why was nothing valuable stolen from Fairlynch?

And was the death of the warden an accident - or murder...?

Change For The Worse is the eleventh cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.

’A classic British murder mystery’ - Public Library Hotlist

’Very well written’ - Chattanooga Times

’In the best Agatha Christie tradition’ - Argosy

THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder