The Unmourned Witness

In 1953 England, when a disabled war widow is found dead after being denied a charitable home, the inquest rules it an accident. But retired linguist Miss Celia Pargeter suspects murder. Her discreet inquiries unveil a horrifying truth: the town's most revered philanthropist, Sir Desmond Hargreave, is methodically killing every person who remembers his squalid origins as a Limehouse pickpocket. As the last living witness slips beyond reach, Pargeter must stage a trap that forces the dead to speak. A classic Agatha Christie-style mystery revealing that a society's justice is a hollow sham if it does not include a reckoning for the slain.