Hugh Moneylaws is the protagonist of the 1920 novel "Dead Men's Money," which is set in Berwick on Tweed. Hugh is a not very intelligent man. His mother, who is widowed, manages a tiny boarding home to help the family make ends meet. He accepts to conduct a strange errand for one of the lodgers who are ostensibly too unwell to go out since he is keen to get some additional money.
Hugh discovers a dead body while on an errand for a strange lodger in his mother's boarding home. This is only the first of many bodies that Hugh will come across during the course of the novel, which have a high body count. As the inquiry progresses, Hugh travels to a variety of locations by train, ship, and other vehicles and encounters a variety of perilous circumstances that he somehow manages to escape, sometimes with the assistance of his boss, who is also the investigation's mastermind.
The mystery is intricate, yet it's also quite foreseeable. However, that doesn't make the book any less enjoyable because the plot features stunningly beautiful locations, small communities with their own rules and laws, well-written characters, both principal and supporting, lots of amusing events and adventures that will make the reader laugh aloud, and a romantic plot that adds to the excitement.
J.S.Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author, regarded to be a leading writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1863, the son of a clergyman. His father was expired when he was only eight months old and he was brought up by his grandmother in Yorkshire. When he was eighteen, Fletcher went to London to study Law and this understanding of crime was of great use to him in his career as a writer of mystery and adventure. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He was fellow of the Royal Historical Society who had studied law before turning to journalism. His literary career covered approximately 200 books on a wide variety of subjects including fiction, non fiction, histories, historical fiction, and mysteries. His first published novel was a historical novel, When Charles the First was King (1892). The Middle Temple Murder is a famous novel of Fletcher. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and move on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher married the novelist and playwright Rosamund Langbridge. Fletcher expired in Surrey in 1935.
