The novel “The Judas Window” continues the series of books about the magnificent Sir Henry Merrivale—the charming, eccentric, slightly scatterbrained fat man who, according to critics, has become one of the most unusual detectives in detective literature.
One of the best cases of Sir Henry Merrivale. A mystery of a “locked room” elevated to the absolute and honed to brilliance. He acts as the lawyer for Jimmy Answell, accused of murdering the father of his fiancée. He was caught in a locked room, alone with a corpse; on the murder weapon, fingerprints of his hands are found; the story he tells sounds like total nonsense.
And only Sir Henry knows for sure that the accused is innocent, knows how the murder was committed, and knows who did it. The question is whether, within the framework of the trial, he will be able to convince the judge and the jury that his version is correct.