Murder in Piccadilly (British Library Crime Classics) - Couverture souple

Kingston, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712357955 ISBN 13 : 9780712357951

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Charles Kingston (1884 - 1944) wrote over twenty crime novels in the golden age of British crime fiction between the two world wars. Many of his books - including Poison in Kensington and The Highgate Mystery - are set in London. All have been unavailable for many decades, and Kingston's work has long been neglected by readers of classic crime fiction.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0712357955
• ISBN 13: 9780712357951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320