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Title Statement | Death of an avid reader / Frances Brody. |
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Series | Kate Shackleton mystery |
Author | Brody, Frances |
Publication | New York: Minotaur Books,2016.©2014 |
Edition | First U.S. Edition. |
Extent of Item | 360 pages. |
ISBN | 1250067391 9781250067395 |
Other Number | 2923054 |
General Notes | "A Thomas Dunne book." |
Summary | "The search for a daughter. Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia. A haunted library. It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, yet the stories have begun again. Kate does not believe in ghosts but obligingly takes part in a ceremony to expel the restless spirit. Shockingly, there is a body in the basement, strangled, and covered in dusty volumes from a fallen bookcase. It is Dr. Potter, a mathematician. A killer on the loose. Dr Potter's body is taken away. The police find a sick man sheltering in the basement. He is an Italian, Umberto, an organ grinder and owner of a lively Capuchin monkey. Umberto becomes the prime suspect and will be charged with murder. Kate goes with Umberto to the infirmary. But he is too weak to be a suspect. And now Kate must set out to find the real culprit ... "--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women private investigators--Fiction--England |
Murder--Fiction--Investigation | |
By Name | Shackleton, Kate |
By Location | Great Britain--Fiction--History--George V, 1910-1936 |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |