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(3.33) | Keine | "Events start in the country town where playwright Augustus (Gus) Maltravers and his actress lover, Tess Davy, visit their friends Susan and Peter Penrose. On a tour of the local stately home, Edenbridge House, Gus and Tess are accompanied by the gracious heir, Lord Dunford; they are as startled as he at the discovery that the skeleton of a medieval ancestor is missing. When Dunford is killed later, the couple obey their sleuthing instincts and consider clues to the case. Susan Penrose had behaved oddly at a gathering with the victim, Tess recalls although she defends her hostess; Gus reflects on the lord's seeming disturbed by the arrival of handsome young Luke Jordan; both the amateur detectives discuss the obvious fears of Joanna York whenever her husband, Alister, approaches. Then there is the affair of the stolen skeleton and its place in the puzzle. It fits, eventually, as Gus and Tess work craftily in secret to hoist a dastardly villain on his own petard, most satisfactorily. A splendid, delightfully atmospheric tale that readers will relish." --provided by Amazon.… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. [Lord Pembury's secretary] wrote the draft swiftly, his fountain pen - he abhorred ballpoint pens - sweeping in a strong, italic script over the paper. [from Author's note] Those who know Fore Street and the neighbourhood of Old Hatfield, Hertfordshire, should be assured that only some local architecture and geography have been borrowed. For Bellringer Street was now in Old Capley, a name jealously guarded by its residents to disassociate themselves from the post-war Capley New Town which bad been gracelessly stuck on to the western edges of the original. A distant prospect of its high-speed motorway, high-rise flats and high-intensity shoppimg centre was visible from the top of Bellringer Street, but ancient and modern maintained somewhat separate existences, each darkly suspecting the other of either well-heeled snobbishness or a deplorable habit of not bathing regularly. Both attitudes were seriously flawed, but class prejudice is a two-way street – or avenue. With the commercial activity of the town moving westward with the new development, Old Capley had become something of a pleasant residential backwater, although a handful of local shops still survived in the square at the bottom of the hill. They passed through the huge wooden lodge gates and back into the blinding heat, with St Barbara's parish church on their left and the hundred yards of parallel terraced houses that made up Bellringer Street dropping steeply down the hill in front of them. The street was frequently loosely described as Georgian but in fact contained a range of styles from late Regency to post-Victorian. The bricked-in archway in the wall rising to their right had once been an entrance for stage coaches when the twenty miles or so from Capley to London had been a day's journey and the building, now converted into flats, was one of eight hostelries which the street had contained to cater for their passengers. Now only the ghosts of the pubs remained, immortalised in a verse written by one of their long-dead customers – Candlestick, Kingmaker, Arms of the baker, Sun in the morning And parson's retreat. Cricketer, virgin And coach driver urging, These are the taverns of Bellringer Street. | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen "Events start in the country town where playwright Augustus (Gus) Maltravers and his actress lover, Tess Davy, visit their friends Susan and Peter Penrose. On a tour of the local stately home, Edenbridge House, Gus and Tess are accompanied by the gracious heir, Lord Dunford; they are as startled as he at the discovery that the skeleton of a medieval ancestor is missing. When Dunford is killed later, the couple obey their sleuthing instincts and consider clues to the case. Susan Penrose had behaved oddly at a gathering with the victim, Tess recalls although she defends her hostess; Gus reflects on the lord's seeming disturbed by the arrival of handsome young Luke Jordan; both the amateur detectives discuss the obvious fears of Joanna York whenever her husband, Alister, approaches. Then there is the affair of the stolen skeleton and its place in the puzzle. It fits, eventually, as Gus and Tess work craftily in secret to hoist a dastardly villain on his own petard, most satisfactorily. A splendid, delightfully atmospheric tale that readers will relish." --provided by Amazon. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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The relaxed holiday disappears as a skeleton disappears and a body is found. ( )