Project Gutenberg 2006-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 235 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam Murder in the Gunroom Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Murder in the Gunroom" by H. Beam Piper is a mystery novel written in the early 1950s. The story centers around Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand, a private detective, who is hired to appraise and negotiate the sale of a deceased collector's extensive gun collection. However, the circumstances surrounding the death of Lane Fleming, the collector found dead in his locked gunroom, raise suspicions of foul play, prompting Rand to investigate both the collection's value and the mysterious circumstances of Fleming's death. The opening of the novel introduces Rand and sets up the central mystery. After Mrs. Gladys Fleming approaches him for help, Rand learns about the peculiar details surrounding her husband's death, including the fact that he was found with a Confederate-made revolver in his hand. The narrative paints a detailed backdrop of gun collecting and introduces supporting characters, such as the suspicious stepdaughters and a rival collector, Arnold Rivers. As Rand begins to untangle the web of relationships and motivations surrounding the firearms and the people who wanted Fleming's collection, he suspects that the death was not an accident but rather a carefully disguised murder. The beginning sets a suspenseful tone as Rand gears up to decipher the truth amidst personal conflicts and potential hidden agendas. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories Private investigators -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction PS Text Crime Fiction Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 429626 429649 2024-09-08T05:04:56.716432 2023-09-08T07:29:10.444729 text/html text/html 429361 2009-01-27T19:52:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 160883 2009-01-27T20:16:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 208647 2024-09-08T05:05:03.340339 application/epub+zip 215404 2024-09-08T05:04:58.304343 application/epub+zip 215405 2024-09-08T05:04:57.361369 application/epub+zip 402372 2024-09-08T05:05:07.400313 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 379834 2024-09-08T05:05:02.676338 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 379943 2022-09-08T13:26:17.048988 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 412614 412519 2024-09-08T05:04:55.852337 2023-09-08T07:29:09.651711 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 412422 2009-01-27T19:51:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 157701 2009-01-27T20:16:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 412416 2009-01-27T19:52:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 157663 2009-01-27T20:16:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 13698209 2009-01-27T20:16:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 12851715 2006-05-27T19:46:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 23681 2024-09-08T05:05:07.538280 application/rdf+xml 12862 2024-09-08T05:04:57.737350 image/jpeg 3303 2024-09-08T05:04:57.558326 image/jpeg 1089024 2009-01-27T19:48:44 application/octet-stream 207848 2024-09-08T05:04:56.754371 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia