Murder at the Club

A young woman—glamorous, expensively dressed, and wholly out of place—is found murdered in the entrance hall of one of New York City’s most exclusive gentlemen’s clubs. She has no business being there, and yet there she is, dead on the marble floor, with every member of the Wanderers’ Club a potential suspect.

Detective Gordon Muldrew is tasked with unraveling the mystery of the dead woman’s identity and her connection to the club’s tight-lipped membership. As he digs deeper, the case grows darker—more bodies follow, secrets multiply, and the trail of motive and opportunity twists in unexpected directions.

Racing alongside him is “Tiger Lillie,” a tenacious reporter for The Star who refuses to be scooped—even when the story starts hunting back. Fast-paced and sharply plotted, this 1933 classic delivers golden-age detective fiction at its most entertaining.