Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells' Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: 'The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery'. When
Murder in the Bookshop
โ Scribed by Anita Davison
- Book ID
- 112177123
- Publisher
- Boldwood Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 479 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781785133138
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โฆ Synopsis
'A lovely mystery evocative of the period from a talented writer.' Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay mysteries
Someone's been read their last rites...
1915, London : Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne - with a paperknife through her heart - in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming.
The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah's instinct that Lily-Anne's husband is keeping secrets, she determines to get to the bottom of it.
She can't do it alone though. To crack this case, Hannah will need to enlist the help of her outrageous, opinionated, only-occasionally-objectionable Aunt Violet.
They think they're making progress until...
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