‘Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Sir Hugo Blanchflower’s died peacefully in his bed in his castle in Quinster, but his last words to his wife filled her with terror. The next nine years, however, passed without incident until one night in the nearby Red Deer.
Lady Blanchflower and her companion, Mrs Whitburn, seemed to be in an unusual mood when dining in the public house, but there was nothing that would lead an observer to expect what was discovered the following morning. Lady Blanchflower is found in the castle strangled by a silk stocking, and Mrs Whitburn has vanished without trace.
Once Anthony Bathurst discovers Mrs Whitburn’s body, the question becomes who was the intended victim? And why was a gentleman’s wig found underneath Lady Blanchflower’s body?
And Cauldron Bubble was first published in 1951. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
About the author
BRIAN FLYNN was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching ‘Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls’ in the evenings, and acting in his spare time.It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time ‘mediocre in the extreme’, he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author’s wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery.The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 57 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst.
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