The Remains of an Altar: A Merrily Watkins Mystery (Merrily Watkins Mysteries)

✍ Scribed by Rickman, Phil

• Publisher: Quercus
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1847240917

✦ Synopsis

There, Merrily discovers new tensions in Elgar's countryside. The proposed takeover of a local pub by a nightclub owner with a criminal reputation has become the battleground between the defenders of Olde Englande and the hard men of the drug world--with extreme and sinister elements on both sides. And as the choral society prepares to stage an open-air performance of Elgar's Caractacus at a prehistoric hill fort, the deaths begin.;In 1934, the dying composer Sir Edward Elgar feebly whistled to a friend the theme from his Cello Concerto and said, "If you're walking on the Malvern Hills and hear that, don't be frightened. It's only me." Seventy years later, Merrily Watkins--parish priest and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford--is called in to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension in a spate of road accidents in the Malvern village of Wychehill.

✦ Subjects

A Mystery