House of Green Turf: An Inspector George Felse Novel - Hardcover
When world-famous opera singer Maggie Tressider crashes her car on her way to a concert , she wakes up in a hospital haunted by the certainty that she has committed a murder some time in the past. Her doctor suggests that, witht the help of a psychiatrist, she may be able to lay the nameless spectre to rest. But Maggie chooses a very different expert to help her unearth the secrets of her past. She hires a private investigator, Francis Killian, to determine whom she has killed, and the circumstances around it. In the pursuit of his work for Maggie, Francis meets Bunty Felse, that one-time opera singer who walked away from fame to marry George. The successful end of Killian's search is only the beginning of a long pilgrimage for them all - a journey that leads not only back into the past, but that takes Killian, Bunty and George to a remote corner of the Austrian alps, where many frontiers touch and many trails cross. And where even today some of them end - with murder...
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Product Description:
Originally published in 1969, a mystery about a woman who wakes up in hospital after a car crash and is convinced that in the past she has been responsible for a death. She hires a private detective to uncover the truth.
About the Author:
Ellis Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter, 1913-1995) is best known as the author of the bestselling CADFAEL CHRONICLES. She was awarded an OBE for her services to literature in 1994.
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- PublisherSphere
- ISBN 10 0708869599
- ISBN 13 9780708869598
- BindingHardcover
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