Was it Reverend Green in the library with the lead piping, or Professor Plum in the billiards room with the candlestick?

Or maybe it was the international best-selling novelist in the study with the typewriter.

This sprawling country retreat would be the ideal setting for a murder mystery featuring Cluedo characters Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard or Mrs Peacock.

But the man behind the sale of Beddingham Place, a £1.6 million retreat near Lewes, has been unmasked as none other than multi award-winning crime writer Peter James.

Fro full story and pictures see today's Argus.