Six Keys to Murder

The antique shop on Marlow Street has exactly six keys to its back room, held by exactly six people the elderly owner trusted — and exactly one dead body inside that room, on a night none of those six keys were used to open the door. Retired locksmith Edwin Hale spent forty years making locks for half the town and swore he was done being involved in other people's business the day he retired. That resolve lasts until the second body turns up in the same back room, this time clutching one of Edwin's own tools, and the six key-holders start looking at each other — and at him — like people trying very hard not to ask the obvious question out loud. Edwin knows every lock in that shop better than its own owner did. Working out which of six trusted friends is willing to kill twice to keep a secret is a very different kind of puzzle, and one he's running out of time to solve before he becomes key-holder number seven.

1. Six Keys
2. Locked Doors
3. The Body in the Back Room
4. Six Suspects
5. A Locksmith by Trade
6. The Heiress
7. The Rival on William Street
8. Oscar’s Notebook
9. The Second Body
10. Under Suspicion
11. Traces in the Metal
12. Who Saw the Mould
13. The Archive Beneath the Floor
14. The Vicar Knows More
15. The Banker and the Debt
16. A Trap for the Mould
17. The Seventh Key

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  ThePlotBunny Лис 3, 2026

  The style is distinctive and memorable. Easily one of my favorites here.

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  Ingrid Solvik ★ Друг Novellion Автор Жов 30, 2026

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  Ingrid Solvik ★ Друг Novellion Автор Жов 30, 2026

  NightReader, reading until dawn is the highest praise for any writer. Thank you for your stamina!

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  NightReader Жов 29, 2026

  I couldn't put this down. The writing is clean and easy to read.

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  MidnightPages Жов 28, 2026

  Such a warm, engaging read. The descriptions are vivid without being heavy.

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