The White Lady (2020) is by Paul Halter and like his other detective novels is faithful to the style and period of the golden age of detective fiction.

The White Lady is set in the 1920s, and features Paul Halter's detective Owen Burns who admires the art of a really good and mysterious murder. An aging widower has taken a young vivacious new wife, and his daughters fear for their inheritance. A mysterious white lady threatens him but evades capture by moving through solid walls and fences. An eccentric soothsayer says murder will follow and it does. Have the children of someone the widower destroyed come for revenge?

The clues are all there, the author plays fair with the reader. The twists and turns are satisfying and surprising.