When Doctor Tudor Cornwall, Reader in Criminal Studies at the University of Wessex, arrives for a semester as Visiting Fellow at his old friend's university down under, he is met with a nasty surprise. Indeed the surprises keep coming and they get nastier as the plot unravels. An exotic cast of susp
Death and the Visiting Fireman
β Scribed by H. R. F. Keating
- Book ID
- 110414193
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781448201297
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Action, dialogue, and the author's 'stage directions' combine to give a filmic quality to this firstnovel. And not often before has a murder puzzle been solved by a committee of suspects. Any man or woman travelling on the stagecoach High Flier that morning could have killed the insupportable 'highwayman', George Hamyadis, and had reasons to do so. And that included Foster P. Schlemberger, president of the American Institution for the Investigation of Incendiarism Inc., whose delegates had been greeted at Southampton by this latter-day coaching party in period costume. He may have protested that it was a European crime and no concern of his, but none the less origins lay quite a long way back in another continent. A scintillating debut
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