The Tragedy at Freyne is a 1927 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson,[1] her first novel under the pseudonym.

It introduced the amateur detective Scott Egerton, who was her principal character until the creation of Arthur Crook in Murder by Experts.

[2] Sir Simon Chandos is found dead in his library with a confession written in front of him and a bottle of morphia tablets by his side, it appears to be an obvious case of suicide.

However one of the guests at the country house notices a slight discrepancy and launches his own amateur investigation into the death.

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