THERES A REASON FOR EVERYTHING

With a slow gesture of one lifted hand, Bobby pointed. There, in a space between the prostrate stag and posturing goddess, was a human leg, a twisted, motionless leg in a strained, unnatural position. Bobby Owen, now Deputy Chief Constable of Wychshire, finds himself taking part in a ghost hunt at legendary haunted mansion Nonpareil. What he discovers is the very real corpse of a paranormal investigator. It seems that among the phantoms there are fakes &ndash, but will that end up including a priceless painting by Vermeer? There&rsquo,s a Reason for Everything was first published in 1945, the twenty-first of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,What is distinction? &hellip, in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.&rdquo, Dorothy L. Sayers &ldquo,No fictional policeman deserves professional advancement more than solid, intelligent Bobby Owen. It&rsquo,s gratifying to learn he&rsquo,s now deputy chief constable of Wychshire and equally gratifying to know that his promotion doesn&rsquo,t keep him from investigating such absorbing problems as this. &hellip,&rdquo, San Francisco Chronicle_,