**London,1937. A talented young woman travels to Paris with a stranger. The promise of an exciting career as a milliner beckons, but she is about to fall in love with the enemy...** Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, fabricating an aristocratic background to launch
The Milliner's Hat Mystery
โ Scribed by Thomson, Basil
- Book ID
- 109297184
- Publisher
- Dean Street Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Series
- Inspector Richardson 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781911095804
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"What are you looking for, sir?" he said.
"Bloodstains."
Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him.
The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult for the French police to touch a criminal with high political connections. But Richardson discovers that the murder of Bernard Pitt was only an incident in the diabolical plot linking a network of criminals on both sides of the Channel.
The Milliner's Hat Mystery, a novel which inspired Ian Fleming, was first published in 1937. This new edition, the first for many decades, includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
"Sir Basil Thomson is a past-master in the mysteries...
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