A Voice Like Velvet

✍ Scribed by Henderson, Donald

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Collins Crime Club
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 225 KB
• Series: Detective Club crime classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0008265356

✦ Synopsis

A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous... By day Ernest Bisham is a velvet-voiced announcer for the BBC; the whole country recognises the sound of his meticulous pronouncements. By night, however, Mr Bisham is a cat-burglar, careless about his loot, but revelling in the danger and excitement of his running contest with Scotland Yard. But as he gets away with more and more daring escapades, there will come a time when he goes too far . . . When Donald Henderson's Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper caused something of a sensation, his publishers were keen to capitalise on their author's popularity, quickly reissuing The Announcer (originally published under his pen-name 'D. H. Landels') with the more alluring title A Voice Like Velvet. Despite a small edition of just 3,000 copies, it was his best reviewed work, as suspenseful and offbeat as his earlier success. This Detective Club classic includes an...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
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All Identifiers : isbn:9780008265359
Single Author : Donald Henderson
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✦ Subjects

Detective and mystery fiction