Barnard

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The Missing Bronte (Perry Trethowan 3) (Bello) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Brontë sisters. Was it a clever forgery, or the literary sensation of the century?

What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.

'You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read' Publishers Weekly

'One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment' New York Times

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.37MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Text und Medien in logischer Lesereihenfolge angeordnet
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Robert Barnard (1936 - 2013) lived in Leeds, was born in Essex and educated at Balliol. He had a distinguished career as an academic before he became a full-time writer. His first crime novel, Death of an Old Goat, was written while he was professor of English at the University of Tromso in Norway, the worlds most northerly university. He was a writer of great versatility, from the light and satirical tone of his earlier books to the more psychological preoccupations of recent ones, such as A Fatal Attachment. Under the name of Bernard Bastable he also wrote novels featuring Mozart as a detective, and is the author of many short stories. He created several detectives, including Perry Trethowan and Charlie Peace. Robert Barnard said he wrote only to entertain. He regarded Agatha Christie as his ideal crime writer and published an appreciation of her work, A Talent to Deceive, as well as books on Dickens, a history of English literature and nearly thirty mysteries. Robert Barnard was the winner of the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for a lifetime of achievement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447238690
• Artikelnr.: 37911252