Author Alexa Wainwright vows to do whatever it takes to attain the heady ego-stroking success of her debut. But is she really? Witnessing an out-of-the-blue lightning bolt whose giant tendrils spread over the blue sky and city streets below her loft window, Alexa doesn't realize just how this vow wi
Comes a Stranger
โ Scribed by Punshon, E R
- Book ID
- 109215666
- Publisher
- Dean Street Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Series
- Bobby Owen 11
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781910570876
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself."
Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder - a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before long a body is reportedly found, stabbed in the world-famous Kayne Library. When Bobby gets to the scene, the corpse has disappeared. But instead Miss Kayne's cousin, Nat, is found in a nearby country lane - shot through the heart. Were the two murders connected - or were there even two? Bobby finds himself embroiled in one of the most ingenious and sinister cases of his career. Can he prove this was not a case of Perfect Murder?
Comes a Stranger , originally published in 1938, is the eleventh novel in the Bobby Owen mystery series. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
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