The Fatal Five Minutes (Morrow Mystery)

296 pp. R. A. J. Walling's place in detective fiction is that of a competent practitioner of the British Golden Age novel. ... Philip Tolefree is the detective in most of Walling's books. Starting out as a private enquiry agent in non-criminal insurance matters, he takes on his first murder case in the Fatal Five Minutes. ... Tolefree has his own Watson, James Farrar, who narrates the first stories, is dropped, and then appears a character in later works. ...[1] ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Alfred John Walling (11 January 1869, Exeter – 4 December 1949) was an English journalist and author of detective novels, who signed his works "R. A. J. Walling".[1]