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Set in a windblown resort in Cornwall, a tale of passion, greed, and murder unfolds as Lennox Kemp is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious women, a gruesome killing takes place, and he searches for clues
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From Publishers Weekly
Despite her literary self-assurance, Meek falters in this fifth mystery involving smart Lennox Kemp, London lawyer. Kemp joins his lover, Penelope Marsden, at a luxury resort on the Cornish coast where he chances to meet Mirable Snape, the wife of a client. The beautiful, bibulous woman sets tongues wagging with her gallivanting; she rarely puts in an appearance at the home of her aunt, where she is a nominal guest with her young son. When a man's decapitated head turns up in a fisherman's net, Mirable, for reasons unknown, becomes catatonic, and Kemp--by now seduced by her charms--finds himself investigating a murder case perhaps linked to her flashy crowd. Though compelled by Meek's writing up to this point, the reader is bound for disappointment in her contrived and incredible denouement: the rugged individualists who were her characters unexpectedly become "types."
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From Library Journal
Meek ( A Worm of Doubt ), like Guthrie, employs the sleuth-on-vacation notion when series protagonist/lawyer Lennox Kemp accompanies girlfriend Penelope Marsden to Cornwall on holiday. They run into the wife of one of Kemp's clients, an attractive but apparently wild and drug-deluded young woman. As Kemp defines a connection between the woman and the grisly death of a local fisherman, he jeopardizes his relationship with Penelope. Superb village settings, excellent writing, and nicely done plot machinations characterize this quietly efficient effort.-- REK
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- PublisherFontana Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0006177786
- ISBN 13 9780006177784
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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