β Scribed by Hazel Holt
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Arson and murder in the English countryside from the author of Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End . . .
In the wake of a reporterβs death, biographer Sheila Malory must dig through the remnants of his life to discover the devil in the details . . .
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Sheilaβs friend, larger-than-life Eva Jackson, has returned to the village of Taviscombe after losing her husband, Alan. A foreign correspondent, Alan reported on dangerous stories around the world from Libya to Afghanistanβbut the cause of his death was more mundane: kidney failure in a London hospital. Still, he led a storied life, and much of his past lies in his writings, papers, and books now boxed away in Evaβs garage.
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After Eva decides to compile a book of Alanβs unpublished works, a fire mysteriously breaks out in the garage. Then Eva meets a suspicious end, leading Sheila to wonder if thereβs a killer at large in their charming Devon countryside . . .
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Mrs. Malory visits the Taviscombe Festival, which has been appropriated by Adrian Palgrave, a writer of little renown. Palgrave, literary executor for Lawrence Meredith, a leading literary figure of the 20s and 30s, is found beaten to death, and suspects abound. Two other deaths and an attempt to de