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Clues to Christabel - Softcover

Fitt, Mary

 
9781899000609: Clues to Christabel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1899000607 ISBN 13: 9781899000609
Verlag: Moonstone Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

"It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that."

Christabel Strange, a highly successful young novelist, is taken ill and dies a year before the story begins. It was her wish that her biography should be written by her friend Marcia Wentworth; but inexplicably, she bequeathed her diaries to her wily, eccentric grandmother, who loathes Marcia and refuses to allow her to see them. Dr. George Cardew, Christabel's childhood friend, arriving at the house (which according to Christabel's will, is being shared by Marcia), finds himself between opposing and bitterly hostile camps, for the family are at loggerheads with Marcia. He begins to wonder why Christabel behaved in such a peculiar way, and whether her death was really due to a fever. The possibility of foul play becomes a certainty when another murder takes place and a volume of the diary is stolen. Gradually Dr. Cardew pieces together the clues to Christabel's hidden life, but it is not until there has been further violence that he is able to identify the murderer and the reason for the original crime.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Fitt was the pseudonym of Kathleen Freeman (1897-1959), a classical scholar who taught Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. Beginning in 1937, Freeman wrote twenty-nine mysteries and a number of short stories as Mary Fitt, and was elected to the Detection Club in 1950. Aside from her detective novels, Freeman published many books on classical Greece, scholarly articles and children's stories. She lived in St Mellons in Wales with her partner Dr Liliane Marie Catherine Clopet, a family physician and author.

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'We all went to the funeral. That woman came with us. I hated her. Judas!'

A clever continuity of past and present in the gradual elucidation of the death of Christabel, a famous writer but little known person, who left behind her an assortment of family living off her memory, and friends living off her money. George Garden, a doctor, interweaves between the two factions, lends an ear to the many malicious tongues, reconstructs Christabel's character and her past, and gets proof of wanton murder.

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Verlag
Moonstone Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1899000607
ISBN 13 
9781899000609
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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