| For Murder Will Speak | |
| Author: | J.J. Connington |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sir Clinton Driffield |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Release Date: | 1938 |
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| Preceded By: | Truth Comes Limping |
| Followed By: | The Twenty-One Clues |
For Murder Will Speak is a 1938 detective novel by the British author Alfred Walter Stewart, published under his pseudonym J.J. Connington.[1] [2] It is the thirteenth in a series of novels featuring the Golden Age Detective Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. The title references a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It was released in the United States by Little, Brown and Company under the alternative title Murder Will Speak.[3]
After the novel Connington took a brief break from Driffield and produced two books The Counsellor and The Four Defences with a new detective, radio personality Mark Brand, as the lead character.[4]
A series of poison pen letters disrupt the harmony of an English town. An embezzling manager at a financial company, spending his spare time trying to conduct multiple romantic affairs, comes under scrutiny. However it is the unexplained death of a young woman in Scotland that slowly begins to unravel the case. When the cheating manager is then found dead, the two cases begin to merge.