Fate Worse Than Death
โ Scribed by Radley, Sheila
- Book ID
- 109220452
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Series
- Inspector Quantrill 5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447226536
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โฆ Synopsis
In the hottest summer for half a century, someone kidnaps Beryl Websdell's garden gnome, leaving a ransom note demanding half a pound of jelly babies for its return. Beryl is upset, and so are her neighbours in the rural Suffolk village where she lives, because the gnome disappeared three days after her daughter also went missing. Beryl doesn't think her daughter has been kidnapped . . . not really . . . but she is worried. And so are the police.
Inspector Martin Tait is holidaying in the neighbourhood at the time, visiting his elderly Aunt Con form whom he hopes one day to inherit a lot of money. That, when it happens, will suit his plans to become a very young and very wealthy Chief Constable . . . and perhaps to marry Alison, pretty daughter of Detective Chief Inspector Quantrill, his ex-boss?
But two things happen to jolt Martin Tait out of his pleasant holiday day-dreams: he finds a body in an empty cottage of his Aunt's; and Aunt Con later...
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