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In a Sussex village where everyone knows everyone, a murder makes familiar faces hard to trust.
Louis Tracy's The Postmaster's Daughter places a serious crime in a quiet rural community. Here, every person has a role and a history, and secrets are hard to keep. Suspicion reaches beyond the crime itself, turning village life into a puzzle of questions, doubt and fear. The setting offers little room to escape the notice of others.
Scotland Yard brings a trained outsider's eye to the case. Detectives from London must work among local habits and loyalties, asking careful questions where people already know one another. The pleasure lies in watching method meet suspicion, and in following an investigation that unfolds step by step rather than rushing past the people at its heart.
What you’ll discover
- A village under suspicion Enter a close community where a serious crime changes how neighbours see one another.
- The outsider's trained eye Follow Scotland Yard detectives as their methods meet the habits and loyalties of village life.
- Secrets beneath familiar lives Look beyond the crime toward the private histories that make each person worth watching.
- A puzzle built patiently Enjoy careful questions and a case that invites you to follow each step.
- Quiet country, gathering doubt Feel the contrast between a rural setting and the fear spreading through its community.
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For readers who love classic detective fiction, quiet country settings and puzzles that unfold step by step, with hidden motives, village secrets and Scotland Yard investigations.
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- A small village is a perfect stage
- Suspicion spreads through a close community
- Scotland Yard brings method to the case
- Secrets matter more than weapons
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La figlia del direttore dell’ufficio postale
by Louis Tracy · 1916
A murder brings Scotland Yard to a Sussex village where everyone knows everyone and secrets are hard to keep.
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The Postmaster's Daughter is a detective novel by Louis Tracy, an English writer who died in 1928. Tracy wrote in the years around the turn of the twentieth century, when readers loved a puzzle built around a crime, a quiet setting and a patient investigator.
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A small village is a perfect stage
The village mystery works because a small place has a limited cast. Every person has a role, a history and a reason to be watched. When a crime breaks the calm, the reader knows the answer lies close at hand.
Sussex, with its lanes, farms and old houses, gives Tracy a setting of this kind. A post office sits at the center of daily news, and a postmaster hears much of what passes between neighbors. That makes the title itself a hint about where information and gossip gather.
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Who wrote The Postmaster's Daughter?
The book was written by Louis Tracy, an English journalist and novelist who died in 1928. He produced many popular mystery and adventure novels in the early twentieth century.
What kind of book is The Postmaster's Daughter?
It is a detective novel in the village murder mystery tradition. It centers on a crime in a small Sussex community and the investigation that follows, with professional detectives involved.
Where is The Postmaster's Daughter set?
The setting is rural Sussex, in the south of England. Its small village community is typical of the quiet country backdrops used in detective fiction of the period.
The author
Louis Tracy
1863–1928 · British novelist
Louis Tracy was a British writer who lived from 1863 to 1928. He was born in Liverpool, England, and wrote novels, including mysteries and romances. His books included The Albert Gate Mystery, published in 1904, The Silent Barrier, published in 1910, and One Wonderful Night, published in 1912.
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