Charlotte Jay

Broschiertes Buch

Arms for Adonis

Beschreibung

The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring. Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that the day will belong to her alone. But when a street bomb hurls her into the arms of a dangerously handsome Syrian colonel, she finds herself trapped once again. Is this a kidnapping? A seduction? Or merely the chaos of the Middle-East? The Wakefield Crime Classics series revives forgotten or neglected gems of crime and mystery fiction by Australian authors. Many of the writers have established international reputations but are little known in Australia.

Autor

Charlotte Jay was born in 1919 in Adelaide, Australia, where she operated an oriental art dealing business and continued to write until her death in 1996. Her mystery and suspense novels reflect a life spent travelling and her desire to 'frighten and mystify readers by asking them to identify themselves with a character bat- tling for survival in a lonely, claustrophobic situation'.She worked in 1949 for the Australian administration in Papua New Guinea, where she set Beat Not the Bones, for which she won the first Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers' Association of America. The famous American critic Dorothy B. Hughes called her 'one of the most important writers of far-off places and their mysterious qualities'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wakefield Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781743056806
• ISBN-10: 174305680X
• Artikelnr.: 57527868