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Author
Publisher
British Library
Pub. Date
2021
Description
It is a dark and misty night - isn't it always? - and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dilys Maine, and a party buzzing with rumours of one Rosemary Reeve who disappeared on the eve of this event the previous year, not found to this day. With thoughts of mysterious case ringing in their ears, Dilys and Nicholas strike a stranger on the drive back home,...
Author
Publisher
Charnwood
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels, but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent's Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris, he vanishes completely - until his suitcase and passport are found in a sinister artist's studio, the Belfry, in a crumbling house in Notting...
Author
Publisher
Soundings Audio Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
It all began with sheep-stealing. A hateful act among the shepherds of the fells, and yet not a matter of life and death. Then came arson and with the leaping of the flames, death and disorder reached the peaceful moors. Holidaying with his friends the Hoggetts in High Gimmerdale while on a trip to find some farmland for his retirement, Robert Macdonald agrees to help in investigating the identity of the sheep-stealers, before being dragged into a...
Author
Series
Publisher
British Library Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Garthmere Hall itself was old before Flodden Field, and here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled his household with a rod of iron. The peaceful dales and fells of the north country provide the setting for this grim story of a murder, a setting in fact which is one of the attractive...
Author
Publisher
Charnwood
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, invalided out of the Royal Navy, takes refuge in Devon, renting Little Thatch in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Hard work and rural peace make it a happy bachelor life for him. At Manor Thatch lives the bored, flirtatious June St Cyres, an exile from London, staying with her father-in-law while her husband Denis is being held prisoner in Burma. She resents the fact that...