A Deed Without a Name / Moonstone Press (ePub)
Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery, but he never expected to take the lead role in a thriller. Yet there was no doubt in...
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My accidents can't be accidental. Very well, there's only one thing they can be-and that's attempted murder."
Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery, but he never expected to take the lead role in a thriller. Yet there was no doubt in his mind that someone was trying to kill him. First there was the narrow miss on Trumpeter's Row, where a car accelerated straight at him. Then there were the chocolates Archy received on his birthday-with an unsigned card-that made him ill. Most recent was the sharp push in the back that almost sent him sprawling in front of an oncoming commuter train. What does Archy know that someone is willing to kill for? And does the recent kidnapping of millionaire Sampson Vick have anything to do with his accidents? Or is all this just the sign of self-absorbed and histrionic young man? Before long, Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe is called to investigate and untangles more than one mystery in the process.
A Deed Without a Name has a well-realised and atmospheric setting during England's "phony war" period in 1939.
Bowers published four Inspector Pardoe novels in rapid succession: Postscript to Poison (1938), Shadows Before (1939), Deed without a Name (1940) and Fear For Miss Betony (1941). Fear For Miss Betony was heralded by the Times of London as the best mystery of 1941, stating "Every page bears witness to a brain of uncommon powers". The outbreak of war brought Bowers to London, where she worked in the European News Service of the BBC. Her final book, The Bells at Old Bailey, was published in 1947, with Pardoe replaced by another Scotland Yard detective, Raikes. Never of
- Autor: Dorothy Bowers
- 2021, 1. Auflage, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Moonstone Press
- ISBN-10: 1899000216
- ISBN-13: 9781899000210
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2021
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- Größe: 1.50 MB
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