The Christmas Egg
Synopsis
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderLondon. 22nd December.Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy flat off Islington High Street. An elderly woman lies dead on the bed, and her trunk has been looted. The woman is Princess Olga Karukhin—an emigrant of Civil War Russia—and her trunk is missing its glittering treasure...Out in the dizzying neon and festive chaos of the capital a colourful cast of suspects abound: the downtrodden grandson, a plutocratic jeweller, Bolsheviks with unfinished business? Beddoes and Nightingale have their work cut out in this tightly-paced, quirky and highly enjoyable jewel of the mystery genre.
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 2019 Mary Kelly
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781464212291
- Publisher:
- Sourcebooks
- Date of Addition:
- 2020-10-06T07:00:18Z
- भाषा:
- English
- Categories:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.