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Synopsis
Fifty years after the disappearance of a young boy ended in a closed case, a series of murders prompts London Solicitor Rosa Epton to reopen the case. By the author of A Dangerous Business.
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From Publishers Weekly
A 50-year-old mystery surfaces in a contemporary investigation as solicitor Rosa Epton finds herself representing murder suspect Adrian Pickard, the new and much younger husband of her octogenarian godmother, Margaret. The victim, a petty criminal and a stranger in the village of Greenborough, where Adrian has signed on as postmaster, had been heard threatening Adrian; later that day he drowned on the property of nearby Warren Hall School. The crime stirs memories of the 1932 disappearance of 11-year-old Stephen Willett, whose blood-stained jersey was found on school grounds. Rosa and her lover, Peter Chen, begin an investigation that leads them to the unsolved mystery, which involved people still living in the area: Sir Denzil Cuckfield, a Warren Hall student at the time and now a highly disliked local squire, and handyman Joe Atherly. When Atherly is found murdered, Adrian's strange interest in Warren Hall and Stephen Willett's death strengthen the case against him, requiring Rosa to call upon her ingenuity to save her godmother's happiness. In each successive outing, Underwood ( Rosa's Dilemma ) has endowed his appealing detective with more humanity.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A somewhat bland new challenge for London lawyer Rosa Epton (A Dangerous Business, etc.). Here, her fondly regarded godmother Margaret, 80-ish and much married, has recently wed Adrian Pickard, pianist on a cruise ship and half her age. They've settled in Greenborough, near London, and soon after are calling on Rosa for help. Harry Wells, a stranger to their village, has been murdered on the grounds of Warren Hall, a local prep school, and Adrian's come under suspicion, heightened when he's found trying to enter the school in the dead of night. There's surely a connection to the still remembered scandal at Warren Hall involving the disappearance of a student and a subsequent murder trial. A brutal second killing, of a relic from that long-ago era, focuses Rosa's attention on a likely culprit. She's off-base, unfortunately--but so are plotting, pace, and, above all, motivation, in this amiable trifle. Definitely lesser Underwood. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0333490312
- ISBN 13 9780333490310
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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