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The corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness
β Scribed by Malcolm Pryce
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- China;Beijing;Yuan Ming Yuan;Thailand;Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing;China)
- ISBN
- 1408895277
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β¦ Synopsis
It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock - the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak. But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth. But if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them...
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