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The Death of Kings - Couverture souple

Livre 5 sur 6: John Madden Mysteries

Airth, Rennie

 
9781509817337: The Death of Kings
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1509817336 ISBN 13 : 9781509817337
Editeur : Pan Books, 2017

Synopsis

From the critically acclaimed author, Rennie Airth, comes the fifth John Madden mystery, The Death of Kings.

I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake's body in August 1938 . . . Since the piece could not have been stolen by the man who was hanged for Miss Blake's murder, the question arises: who else could have taken it?
And why?

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of Portia Blake, an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time – the accused vagrant gave a written confession and was sentenced to the gallows - but in the police's haste to close the inquiry, the necklace was never recovered. Until now.

Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter's worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy . . .

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À propos de l'auteur

Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter and The Reckoning.

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Éditeur
Pan Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509817336
ISBN 13 
9781509817337
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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