**Description** Who killed Mr. Jessop? Who stole the Fellows necklace? Who attacked Hilda May? The web of suspicion encompasses a dealer in 'hot goods', respected jewellers, a millionaire, an ex-pugilist, a playboy, members of the nobility, a hard-boiled moll and a girl who could not forget her pas
Dictator's Way: a Bobby Owen Mystery
โ Scribed by Punshon, Ernest Robertson
- Publisher
- Dean Street Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Series
- Bobby Owen Mystery 10;Bobby Owen Mysteries
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1910570400
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โฆ Synopsis
Description
When an old acquaintance of Bobby Owen's from Oxford days turns up out of the blue, he needs help. Bobby little suspects that investigating the sinister enclave of 'Dictator's Way' will quickly set in train a series of momentous events, involving Bobby in a fistfight with an ex-professional boxer, kidnap, peril at sea and international intrigue - not to mention encounters with the mysterious and attractive Olive Farrar in whom Bobby might just have met his match.
Dictator's Way is the tenth of E.R. Punshon's acclaimed Bobby Owen mysteries, first published in 1938 and part of a series which eventually spanned thirty-five novels.
Praise
Praise
_"What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers
"Mr E.R. Punshon is one of the most entertaining and...
โฆ Subjects
Murder -- Fiction
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