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Title Statement | Weekend at Thrackley / Alan Melville ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards. |
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Series | British Library crime classics |
Author | Melville, Alan, 1910-1983 |
Publication | Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press,2018. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 235 pages ; |
ISBN | 1464209715 (pbk.) 9781464209710 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3382142 |
General Notes | "Originally published in 1934 by Skeffington & Son, Ltd"--Title page verso. |
Summary | Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding but the party is warm and hospitable except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure, with attempted robbery and a vanishing guest, secrets come to light and Jim unravels a mystery from his past. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Veterans--Fiction--England |
Collectors and collecting--Fiction | |
Missing persons--Fiction--Investigation | |
Rich people--Fiction--Crimes against | |
Country homes--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Precious stones--Fiction--Collection and preservation | |
By Location | Surrey (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |