The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade - Couverture rigide

Trow, M. J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333384474 ISBN 13 : 9780333384473

Editeur : Macmillan, 1985

Synopsis

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED by the author.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Physical desc.: 224p. ; 21cm. Subject: Fiction in English -- Mystery/crime friction -- Detective fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine.

But this is only the start of the nightmare – the first in a series of killings so brutal, so bizarre and apparently so random that only a warped genius (and a master of disguise) could be responsible. Even when Lestrade pieces together the extraordinary pattern of the crimes from the extraordinary poems sent after each murder, he is no closer to knowing the identity of the mysterious ‘Agrippa’, the ‘great, long, red-legged scissorman’. It becomes a very personal battle and Lestrade’s desperate race to avert the next death in the sequence takes him all over the country, from London to the Pennines and back.

Lestrade whirls from ballroom to bar-room, from vicarage to Spiritualist gathering, from the studio of the celebrated Alma-Tadema to 221B Baker Street with spellbinding panache.

‘Dry neo-Wodehousian wit runs through this bold revisionist mystery… The true sleuthing brain of the times belongs to Scotland Yard’s Inspector Sholto Lestrade… The buffoonish Holmes and his idiotic disguises are a hoot.’
Publishers’ Weekly

Biographie de l'auteur

M J Trow is a crime writer, historian and biographer who for many years doubled as a history teacher. Now retired, he is the author of three successful crime fiction series – Lestrade, Maxwell and Kit Marlowe, the latest written in collaboration with his wife. He lives in the Isle of Wight, and as well as writing lectures on cruise ships has appeared many times on television in historical and crime documentaries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333384474
• ISBN 13: 9780333384473
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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