The first book in Philippa Carr's celebrated Daughters of Englandseries is at once a love story, a mystery, and an epic historical saga set during the tumultuous reign of Henry VIII Damask Farland, named after a rose, is captivated by the mysterious orphan Bruno. Discovered upon the abbey altar on C
Death at St. Asprey's School
β Scribed by Leo Bruce
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press;Academy Chicago Publishers
- Year
- 1967;1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1613732732
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β¦ Synopsis
There are strange goings-on at St. Asprey's, an expensive boys' preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night . . . strange lights . . . rabbits with battered skulls. Carolus Deene has some spine-tingling experiences before he solves the mystery.
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