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The Man on the Endless Stair

Chris Barkley

A locked-room mystery set on a secluded 1950s Hebridean island, where an aspiring novelist must track down a murderer to take back his dead mentor’s unfinished manuscript.

Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, £9.99, 4 June 2026, 9781846977404

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