Description
Product ID: | 9781788546393 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | A Betty Church Mystery |
Title: | The Room of the Dead |
Authors: | Author: M.R.C. Kasasian |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | Historical crime and mysteries, Historical mysteries, Second World War fiction, Second World War fiction |
Description: | As war rages in London, Inspector Betty Church finds herself on the trail of a cold-blooded killer in the sleepy Suffolk town of Sackwater. A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satin is having a birthday party, and a bookmark has been reported stolen. Inspector Betty Church – one of the few female officers on the force – is longing for something to get her teeth into... When a bomb is dropped on Sackwater, it seems the war has finally reached them. But Betty can''t stop Adolf, however hard she tries. So when a dead man is found on the beach, she concentrates on hunting an enemy much closer to home. ''Eccentric and entertaining with a nicely complex plot''Crime Review. ''A wonderfully gripping old-fashioned murder mystery'' The Lady. |
Imprint Name: | Head of Zeus |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-07-11 |