The Bells at Old Bailey - Dorothy Bowers

Descriere The Bells at Old Bailey - Dorothy Bowers

\nIt was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police.\n \nIt was not a sense of civic duty that compelled her, but the arrival of two letters that made it clear her life was in danger. The local villagers had been agitated for months over whether the seemingly unconnected deaths were the suicides they appeared to be. Better to say nothing of her intentions though, not even to her immediate circle: the staff of the Minerva hat shop who worked for her, or Léonie, her old Breton maid. Nor would she mention the letters to her interested neighbours or the rector, who had buried four of the victims, or even to Owen Greatorex, the novelist of international reputation, who seemed disarmingly gentle. For who was to be trusted?\n \nScotland Yard is soon on the scene but more deaths occur before Detective-Inspector Raikes puts the pieces together.\n \nDorothy Bowers (1902-48) was a champion of fair play mysteries, in which all the clues are cunningly displayed within the story. The Bells at Old Bailey (1947). was her fifth and last novel. Bowers died in 1948 from tuberculosis, having been inducted the prestigious Detection Club a few months earlier.\n

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Moonstone Press

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9781899000111

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