The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Lindsay
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Lindsay
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
A LOCKED ROOM.
AN AUDACIOUS THEFT.
A BLOODY CORPSE…
November 1954. Sir Henry Fox-Strangways has invited old friends and colleagues to Dartstone Manor to show off his cabinet of curiosities. Amongst a collection of artefacts from a thousand years of European history, the cabinet’s centrepiece is the magnificent 12th-century astrolabe of Swiss astronomer, Albrecht Wolfe.
The guests assemble, dinner is served, music plays, and the cabinet of treasures is revealed. The following morning, however, reveals a grim scene. Behind the locked drawing room door, the Wolfe astrolabe is gone, and Sir Henry lies on the fireside rug, dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.
