Touch and Go: A Golden Age Mystery - Patricia Wentworth

Descriere Touch and Go: A Golden Age Mystery - Patricia Wentworth

\n \nI know what we'll do. We'll play Devil-in-the dark.\n \nWhen Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didn't bargain for a series of sinister occurrences--scary noises, the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass, a sabotaged bicycle. Then there is a neighbouring burglary, leaving a set of muddy footprints--but whose?\n \nSarah comes to suspect that someone is trying to kill the orphaned Lucilla, sole heir to a fortune. Is it visiting American John Brown, or could Lucilla be playing a deceptive game of her own? Someone is poised, waiting like a snake to strike, and Lucilla may not be the only prey...\n \nTouch and Go was originally published in 1934 (original UK title: Devil in the Dark). This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.\n \nWhen I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself--and I always do. Mary Dell, Daily Mirror\n

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Dean Street Press

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ENSTK

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9781911413233

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1

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