Summer of Secrets
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Severn House (Verlag)
978-1-78029-751-4 (ISBN)
Severn House (Verlag)
978-1-78029-751-4 (ISBN)
August, 1856. The dress rehearsal for a charity performance at
Knebworth House is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of
the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under
suspicion, writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, spending the
summer at Knebworth House, feel compelled to investigate.
When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate.
August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death.
With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present.
Knebworth House is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of
the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under
suspicion, writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, spending the
summer at Knebworth House, feel compelled to investigate.
When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate.
August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death.
With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present.
Cora Harrison turned to writing historical fiction after she retired from teaching to live on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. As well as the Gaslight mysteries, she is the author of the Reverend Mother mysteries, and the 'Mara' series of Celtic mysteries, set in 16th century Ireland.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.12.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | A Gaslight Mystery |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 305 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78029-751-3 / 1780297513 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78029-751-4 / 9781780297514 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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