Description
Product ID: | 9780749030605 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Dryden Mysteries |
Title: | The Skeleton Man |
Subtitle: | The gripping mystery series set against the Cambridgeshire fen |
Authors: | Author: Jim Kelly |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Following on from Allison & Busby's extremely popular Nighthawk series of Jim Kelly crime novels set in Cambridge during World War II. The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude''s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when a Territorial Army exercise is held amongst the ruins, a skeleton is found hanging in a bricked-up cellar, a noose round the neck. It seems that the ghostly village may hide many secrets and local newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is soon on the case.Then a man, pulled unconscious from the river at nearby Ely, claims to have lost his memory, yet reacts with startled fear to the name Jude''s Ferry ... |
Imprint Name: | Allison & Busby |
Publisher Name: | Allison & Busby |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-22 |