Scarecrow: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery (Paperback or Softback)

Fielding, A. E.

ISBN 10: 1937022781 / ISBN 13: 9781937022785

Editore: Resurrected Press 7/14/2014, 2014

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Scarecrow: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery.

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• Titolo: Scarecrow: A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery (Paperback or Softback)
• Editore: Resurrected Press 7/14/2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1937022781
• ISBN 13: 9781937022785
• Rilegatura: Paperback or Softback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 0,72 libbre
• Tipo di libro: Book

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Riassunto

Chief Inspector Pointer has a problem. More specifically, he has a body and two women claiming it as their husband. The body, the apparent victim of robbery with violence, was discovered on the beach at Dover dressed in old clothes. The competing claims of the women are soon dismissed as those of women looking for a “convenient” body, the one to collect on an insurance policy, the other to remarry. That leaves Pointer with the question of the identity of the dead man and how did he come to be lying in a beach shelter with his head bashed in. His investigation leads him to the sunny fields of the south of France and entanglements with another, more sensational, murder case that had long been thought solved.

Informazioni sull?autore

The identity of the author is as much a mystery as the plots of the novels. Two dozen novels were published from 1924 to 1944 as by Archibald Fielding, A. E. Fielding, or Archibald E. Fielding, yet the only clue as to the real author is a comment by the American publishers, H.C. Kinsey Co. that A. E. Fielding was in reality a "middle-aged English woman by the name of Dorothy Feilding whose peacetime address is Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, London, and who enjoys gardening." Research on the part of John Herrington has uncovered a person by that name living at 2 Sheffield Terrace from 1932-1936. She appears to have moved to Islington in 1937 after which she disappears. To complicate things, some have attributed the authorship to Lady Dorothy Mary Evelyn Moore nee Feilding (1889-1935), however, a grandson of Lady Dorothy denied any family knowledge of such authorship. The archivist at Collins, the British publisher, reports that any records of A. Fielding were presumably lost during WWII. Birthdates have been given variously as 1884, 1889, and 1900. Unless new information comes to light, it would