The Taste of Murder - Couverture souple

Cannan, Joanna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486252965 ISBN 13 : 9780486252964

Editeur : Dover Pubns, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Cannan Joanna

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters." The New Yorker.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
"Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives." The New York Times."

Biographie de l'auteur

In addition to detective novels, Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896 1961) wrote a series of children's books about horses and riding.The daughter of an Oxford dean, Cannan served as a nurse during World War I, married one of her soldier patients, and produced nearly a book a year from the 1920s onward."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Pubns
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0486252965
• ISBN 13: 9780486252964
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible