Murder at School

At Oakington, an English public school, a schoolmaster turns up dead. The immediate problem for the investigation is not a lack of motive, but a surplus—nearly everyone on the grounds had a reason to want the man gone.

What begins as a strange affair in a dormitory soon multiplies. A second incident in the swimming-bath and an inquest on Speech Day make it clear that the violence is far from over. As the tragedies compound, three successive detectives attempt to parse the alibis, untangle competing theories, and extract the truth from a story told by a man named Lambourne, following a trail that leads away from the school to a lunch for two in Soho.

First published by Ernest Benn in London in 1931 under the pseudonym Glen Trevor, this detective novel by James Hilton was later issued in the United States under the title *Was It Murder?*.