The BUTLER DID IT crime book club

For the coming months, there will be no connection between the books - just a delve into the bookshelves.
For May...
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey (1936)
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning.
Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
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The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin (1951)
Long inhabited by a collection of profoundly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the newly rich and well-to-do arriving in the village of Cotten Abbas … and not everyone is happy about it. New arrivals are receiving anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets and dirty laundry.
Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene but soon finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell-bent on keeping this mystery unsolved…