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A prominent doctor is found murdered in a secret room in his own home in this classic mystery. Upper Square is the last stronghold of snobbery in Abbot's Caldicott, a dying little metropolis in East Anglia, and the remnants of queer old families re-side there. Doctor Beharrell, a promi-nent physician, is found murdered in a secret room in his home at Bank House, in the square, and Superintendent Littlejohn, warned before it has been discovered that the crime has been com-mitted, goes to investigate. Before he leaves Caldicott with the case solved, a lot of strange past history comes to light and the repressions and inbreeding of the upper ten of Caldicott produce some queer twists of hatred and mad-ness. Littlejohn, whom David Holloway calls ' the most courteous of all fictional detectives, ' finds all his good manners are needed in dealing with this strange affair among a crowd of characters who live in an atmosphere of days that are gone. Death Sends for the Doctor was first published in 1957.