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Death of an airman: a British library crime classic

✍ Scribed by Christopher St. John Sprigg

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 135 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

"Bubbles over with zest and vitality ... A most ingenious and exciting plot, full of good puzzles and discoveries and worked out among a varied cast of entertaining characters."– Dorothy L. SayersGeorge Furnace, flight instructor at Baston Aero Club, dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside. People who knew him are baffled – Furnace was a first-rate pilot, and the plane was in perfect condition – and the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure.An Australian visitor to the aero club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide – or even murder? Together with Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard, the intrepid bishop must uncover a cunning criminal scheme.

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