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The Murder at World’s End
  • Published: 4 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241766170
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $34.99
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The Murder at World’s End

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4 Nov 2025
EBook
30 Oct 2025
Audiobook
30 Oct 2025
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30 Nov 2025
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From award-winning children's author Ross Montgomery comes the first in a gripping new crime series, where Downton Abbey meets Knives Out with a sprinkle of wickedness.

Downton Abbey meets Knives Out in the gripping new crime series from the bestselling author where an unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogerian - hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world.

Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be sealed from top to bottom - every window, chimney and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow.

All eyes turn to Stephen Pike, Tithe Hall's newest under-butler. Fresh out of Borstal for a crime he didn't commit, he is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. His unlikely ally? Miss Decima Stockingham, the foul-mouthed, sharp as a tack, 80-year-old family matriarch. Fearless and unconventional, she relishes chaos and puzzles alike, and a murder is just the thrill she's been waiting for.

Together, this mismatched duo must navigate secret passages, buried grudges and rising terror to unmask the killer before it's too late...
  • Published: 4 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241766170
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for The Murder at World’s End

With a killer on the loose, new footman Stephen and the Viscount's hilariously vile-tempered aunt form an unlikely detective duo. A fine start to a promising new series

Daily Mail

Riotous and deeply enjoyable . . . even I didn’t crack the clever solution to the locked-room puzzle

Telegraph

An absolute cracker!

The Sun

A great plot and laugh-out-loud funny

Woman & Home

Get ready to add this to your Book of the Year list. This is impeccable writing, with a plot as sharp as cut glass and characters that jump right out of the pages.

Janice Hallett

A hugely enjoyable book, which takes all the traditional locked-room mystery conventions and puts them through the mangle

Andrew Hunter-Murray

A witty, fleet-footed historical mystery, The Murder at World's End is a slice of undiluted joy

Alex Hay

A wonderfully clever take on the classic locked-room mystery. I’ll happily follow foul-mouthed Miss Decima and steadfast Stephen Pike through many more mysteries

Kristen Perrin

Devilishly plotted and beautifully executed, Ross Montgomery’s debut historical crime fiction novel is an utter joy from start to finish

Abir Mukherjee

Ingeniously plotted and highly addictive. Fans of P G Wodehouse will enjoy this!

Alexander Armstrong

A tantalising whodunnit with some of the funniest dialogue I’ve read in a while. I enjoyed it immensely

Jennie Godfrey

A tantalising whodunnit with some of the funniest dialogue I’ve read in a while. I enjoyed it immensely

Jennie Godfrey

Get ready to add this to your Book of the Year list. This is impeccable writing, with a plot as sharp as cut glass and characters that jump right out of the pages. A joy from start to finish

Janice Hallet

Ingeniously plotted and highly addictive. Fans of P G Wodehouse will enjoy this!

Alexander Armstrong
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