Noble Lord - Hardcover

Peter Lauder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0006172814 ISBN 13: 9780006172819

Publisher: Stein, 1986

Synopsis

Arriving in New York from the island of Antiqua, Police Sergeant Robin Hope investigates the death of his brother-in-law, a petty jewel thief, and uncovers a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II that involves the most expensive colt in the world

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Black Sgt. Winston Hope is the most competent police officer on the Caribbean island of Antigua. His brother-in-law, Ernest Wilson, is a petty hotel thief who perpetrates too fortuitous a heist and is later murdered, Mafia-style, in New York City. Suspecting a drug connection, Antiguan authorities assign Hope to unravel the crime. Hope stumbles on the truth that neither drugs nor Mafia colluded in Wilson's death: Wilson had lifted the attache case of a master terrorist whose IRA cohorts plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth on Derby Day at Epsom Downs. The terrorists have already insinuated themselves in the paddocks among the retinue of trainers who attend Noble Lord, the Derby favorite. In his first novel, Lauder dispenses intriguing information about both steeplechase racing and terrorist practices, but the coincidences that keep the narrative moving rattle as noisily as hail on a tin roof.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Stein
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0006172814
• ISBN 13: 9780006172819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288