Douglas Harding Archive

The Melwold Mystery 1940: excerpt from the manuscript

The first detective novel that Harding wrote was How Briggs Died, published during the Second World War in London, in 1940. (Available on Amazon.) The second detective novel (the same detective starring in both books) was The Melwold Mystery, written in India in 1940, revised in 1951, but not published at the time. (We will publish this in due course.) Here is the first chapter of the typescript.

Photographs of the Manuscript