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It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number - the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes … mehrnational hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing.This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets and a whole family of suspects - it is the original Victorian whodunnit.
Zusatztext: Reise ohne Wiederkehr: Als eine Bekannte während einer Luxuskreuzfahrt spurlos verschwindet, versucht die engagierte Psychologin und Moderatorin Susan Chandler, die Wahrheit zu ergründen. Dabei stößt sie auf eine Reihe ähnlicher Fälle und bringt sich selbst in tödliche Gefahr.
"In ihrem raffiniert konstruierten Psychothriller legt Mary Higgins Clark immer neue Fährten - bis zum völlig überraschenden Ende." SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Informationen zum Autor:

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her five-year-old son.

in: Englisch
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ISBN: 978-0-7475-9648-6
B-Format Paperback. B
s/w. Abb.
372 S.
H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.7 cm 289 g weniger