On the third day of Christmasโฆ Major Giles Vernon and Felix Carswell are called away from the Christmas hearth and their families to investigate a savage crime. In the bleak whaling town of Eastby, wealthy widow Anna Wetherby has been horribly murdered and her housekeeper and friend Ellen Stoddard s
The Dead Songbird (The Northminster Mysteries)
โ Scribed by Smart, Harriet
- Book ID
- 109264589
- Publisher
- Anthemion
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Series
- Northminster 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781907873126
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โฆ Synopsis
Celebrated singer Anna Morgan has come to Northminster to escape a troubled past and sing at the city's Handel Festival. But when she continues to receive the poisonous letters that have been plaguing her, she turns to Chief Constable Major Giles Vernon and Police Surgeon Felix Carswell to find her persecutor, drawing the two men into her charismatic orbit. At the same time, a talented young tenor is found dead in curious circumstances in a locked chapel, and the hunt for a murderer is on.
The Dead Songbird is the second Northminster Mystery featuring early-Victorian detective Vernon and Carswell.
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