Hume, Fergus: The Secret Passage, LIT v1, 21 February 2010.
 

Fergus Hume [1859–1932]
The Secret Passage [1905]

A little old lady is found murdered in her country cottage. Her new maid’s father had been poisoned some years previously. And there’s a Spanish adventuress with a gambling den living nearby. These events are all connected. Life in rural England is clearly more exciting than one might expect.