**The first mystery in Susanna Calkins' captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920's Chicago speakeasy.** Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father--and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at C
Death Knocks Twice
โ Scribed by Robert Thorogood
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Mira
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Edition
- EPub edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1474058388
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โฆ Synopsis
The new DI Richard Poole mystery Two dead bodies. A family of suspects. One grumpy detective. Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richard Poole dreams of cold winds, drizzly rain and a pint in his local pub. Just as he is feeling as fed up as can be, a mysterious vagrant is found dead in the grounds of the historic Beaumont plantation. Immediately assumed to be suicide, DI Poole is not so convinced and determined to prove otherwise. Never mind that the only fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to the victim. Or that the room was locked from the inside. Before long, death knocks twice and a second body turns up. The hunt is on to solve the case โ despite the best efforts of the enigmatic Beaumont family...
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