J. S. Fletcher

Broschiertes Buch

The Murder in the Pallant

Beschreibung

In the cathedral town of Selchester, where everything happens according to schedule, no one can even remember when anything occurred as shocking as a murder. However, one ordinary November morning, the regular pattern of life in a peaceful English village is suddenly disturbed by an unusual and inexplicable murder. The body of Mr. Postlethwaite, is found, bashed over the head with a hammer, inside the private room behind his office where the last legal work Mr. Postlethwaite did the day before, it seems, was to visit Sir James Cardyne, a local landowner, at his nearby country house in order to draw up a new will for him. Incidental to this major catastrophe are the mysterious disappearances of large sums of money and the discovery of an eleventh-hour will which is to change the direction of many lives. This is a complex, carefully plotted, and well-written mystery with unusual depth in its storytelling.

Autor

J.S.Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author, regarded to be a leading writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1863, the son of a clergyman. His father was expired when he was only eight months old and he was brought up by his grandmother in Yorkshire. When he was eighteen, Fletcher went to London to study Law and this understanding of crime was of great use to him in his career as a writer of mystery and adventure. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He was fellow of the Royal Historical Society who had studied law before turning to journalism. His literary career covered approximately 200 books on a wide variety of subjects including fiction, non fiction, histories, historical fiction, and mysteries. His first published novel was a historical novel, When Charles the First was King (1892). The Middle Temple Murder is a famous novel of Fletcher. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and move on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher married the novelist and playwright Rosamund Langbridge. Fletcher expired in Surrey in 1935.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chosho Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9781958425503
• ISBN-10: 1958425508
• Artikelnr.: 70268086