Cover; Title Page/About The Book; Introduction by Curtis Evans; CHAPTER 1 -- TWO THEATRE TICKETS; CHAPTER 2 -- THE NEW WILL; CHAPTER 3 -- MURDER; CHAPTER 4 -- THE BILLIARD-ROOM; CHAPTER 5 -- THE OPEN SAFE; CHAPTER 6 -- CLUES; CHAPTER 7 -- AN OATH SWORN; CHAPTER 8 -- THE HEIRESS; CHAPTER 9 -- WAKENIN
Information Received
β Scribed by Punshon, E R
- Book ID
- 109215309
- Publisher
- Dean Street Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Series
- Bobby Owen 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781910570319
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Description
In his London townhouse, city magnate Sir Christopher Clarke is found lying murdered. At the other end of the house his safe hangs open and rifled, and earlier in the day he had visited his solicitors in order to make a drastic change in his will. Later it is discovered that there has been fraud connected with the dead man, and this is but one of the many complications with which Superintendent Mitchell is faced. Fortunately he has the assistance of young Constable Owen, a talented young Oxford graduate who, finding all other careers closed to him by the 'economic blizzard' of the early thirties, has joined the London Police force.
Information Received is the first of E.R. Punshon's acclaimed Bobby Owen mysteries, first published in 1933 and the start of a series which eventually spanned thirty-five novels.
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