Play To The End - Couverture rigide

Goddard, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593047605 ISBN 13 : 9780593047606

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2004

Synopsis

PLAY TO THE END is another classic Robert Goddard mystery, intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge. His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring John Thaw.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen, arrives in Brighton on the first Sunday in December with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour since September and are looking forward to the end of the run the following Saturday.

Flood is visited that night by his estranged wife, Jenny, now living with wealthy entrepreneur Roger Colborn, whose country residence, Wickhurst Manor, lies just north of Brighton. Jenny runs a shop in the Lanes and is worried about a strange man who has taken to hanging around outside. Roger has dismissed her concerns and she hopes instead that Toby will agree for old times' sake to follow the man and get to the bottom of his behaviour. Reluctantly, Toby agrees.

Next day he trails the man to his house and confronts him. Derek Oswin is an unemployed loner, who blames Colborn for his father's death from cancer, on account of dangerous practices at the defunct plastics factory run by Roger and his father, the late Sir Walter Colborn. Many other workers at the factory met a similar fate and Oswin wants to remind Colborn of what he should have on his conscience. Circumstances conspire to draw Flood further and further into Oswin's life. Colborn gets wind of Flood's contact with Jenny and tries to buy him off, but Flood sees only a longed-for opportunity to win Jenny back. Before he fully understands the risks he is running, he finds himself entangled in the mysterious - and dangerous - relationship between the Oswins and the Colborns. Prospects of his survival until the close of the show suddenly start to look very far from good.

Play to the End is another classic Robert Goddard mystery, intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593047605
• ISBN 13: 9780593047606
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible