Dead Man Riding - Brossura

Linscott, Gillian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0751531987 ISBN 13: 9780751531985

Casa editrice: Sphere, 2003

Riassunto

In the last summer of Queen Victoria's reign it was not considered 'proper' for unmarried women to go travelling with members of the opposite sex. But Nell Bray can't understand why she and a mixed group of her student friends should not stay with an uncle of one of them, and they decide to risk the wrath of their colleges. Their intention is to discuss philosophy and literature and to walk the fells of the Lake District. However, when they arrive they find that Alan's uncle, the 'old man', having spoken out against the Boer War, has been ostracised by the village and is suspected of having murdered the local magistrate's son even though no body has been found. Her curiosity piqued by this tale, and by the old man's unconventional household, Nell determines to separate the facts from the myth. But first of all love gets in the way, and then the old man is discovered dead. At first it seems he chose a spectacular method of suicide to avoid scandal and ill health, but Nell then works out that he could not have killed himself in this way without help and she suspects that one of their party is a murderer ...

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Informazioni sull'autore

Gillian Linscott has been a journalist with the GUARDIAN and Parliamentary Correspondent with the BBC. Two Nell Bray novels have been dramatised on BBC Radio 4.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sphere
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0751531987
• ISBN 13: 9780751531985
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile