The Open Door: A Hooky Hefferman Story - Hardcover

Meynell, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333360478 ISBN 13: 9780333360477

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1986

Synopsis

Stella Brendan was accustomed to a comfortable unearned income and she was fifty-two years old when it vanished. How could she survive? She could survive by marrying Sir Loder Cholerton, tycoon and ageing bachelor. But Stella has skeletons in her past, skeletons that would not appeal to Sir Loder should they come out. When that threat occurs Stella calls Hooky Hefferman, who finds himself trying to protect Stella's interests. Then there's a murder. A man has been shot and there are several people who could have fired the fatal bullet ...'Thoroughly civilised writing, managing to up-date the easy, humorous, engaging mood of pre-war days, floods this pleasant country house mystery with a sunny glow' Glasgow Herald

About this title

About the Author

Laurence Meynell was born in Wolverhampton and educated at St Edmund's College, Hertfordshire. He served in the Artillery during WW1, and after leaving the army in 1919 taught for a short time, before working as a land agent in the Midlands. He had always wanted to write, however, and after winning the publisher Harrap's novel competition in 1924 became a successful and prolific author who, although best known for his crime fiction, also wrote non-fiction and children's books. He was married twice, to writer Shirley Darbyshire, with whom he had a daughter, Ann, and to Joan Belfrage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333360478
• ISBN 13: 9780333360477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191