The Man of Dangerous Secrets by Maxwll March

Maxwell March is the pseudonym of Margery Allingham. So, if you enjoy her work, which is similar to Dorothy L. Sayers, then this is another mystery you should read. The plot is very thick with characters but that does not deter. From the first page I was intrigued. How could you not be? The book starts with an almost murder and keeps up the tense pace till the end.

The Dealer, is blackmailing four very important Tycoons in their field. He is known only by a Pseudonym. One of the blackmailed, Sir Henry Fern, has a beautiful Daughter- who has lost two fiancée's in bizarre accidents. But were they accidents? Jennifer Fern is contemplating another proposal when Tony is poisoned. She decides to find someone to help her track down the Killer and stop them. The easiest way for someone to do that...is to become her third fiancée and stay one step ahead of death.

I should "fess" up and say I love these older Mysteries. It is another Era and the stories are interwoven with chivalrous Characters, stolid British Policeman and glamorous Women. But they also contain evil, murder and blackmail. The writing has an old- fashioned, charming, quality to it that people who read the older mystery classics will recognize and approve. I enjoyed it. 

Blurb:

He was haunted by the face of a girl, a girl lovely beyond all imagining, with stark terror in her wide grey eyes.

Robin Grey is Scotland Yard’s inside man – handling matters requiring a delicacy, integrity, and secrecy outside the jurisdiction of regular government offices. He is a man of details, of observation, and of intuition.

While lurking about Waterloo station on a mission for the Foreign Office, Grey’s interest is piqued by a suspicious looking character. Tailing him, Grey catches the man shove a fellow passenger onto the train tracks. Rushing to intervene, Robin Grey never stops to think that saving the victim might ensnare him in the same sinister plot.

Heiress Jennifer Fern is cursed: tragic accidents have claimed two past fiancés, and she would have lost a third had it not been for Robin Grey’s heroic actions. Terrorized by the torment that stalks her, Grey is drawn to this young woman and feels honour-bound to help her. Tempting fate, he goes undercover to solve this deadly mystery.

But if loving Miss Jennifer Fern means certain death, can Grey protect her, and his own heart, before history repeats itself?

Queen of Classic Crime, Margery Allingham, delivers a dazzling mystery writing as Maxwell March.