An Expert in Murder Death Haunts the West End - Hardcover

Upson, Nicola

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571237703 ISBN 13: 9780571237708

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2008

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About the Author:

Nicola Upson has written for a variety of publications, including the New Statesman, where she was a crime fiction critic. She also regularly contributes to BBC radio and has worked in the theater for ten years. She divides her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

From Publishers Weekly:

Mystery writer Josephine Tey (The Daughter of Time) makes a convincing sleuth in British author Upson's debut, the launch of a new whodunit series. On a train journey from Scotland to London in 1934, Tey meets a fan, Elspeth Simmons, who's traveling to the capital to attend a performance of Tey's hit play about Richard II. When Simmons is found brutally murdered—stabbed with a hatpin, posed with some dolls and partially shaved—after arrival at King's Cross, Tey's Scotland Yard friend, Insp. Archie Penrose, investigates and soon learns that the victim was adopted under irregular circumstances. After another death, the evidence suggests that both crimes are linked to a murder committed amid the devastating trench warfare of WWI. While the heroine falls conventionally into the killer's clutches before a solution many will anticipate, the engaging prose will leave even readers unfamiliar with Tey's fiction eagerly looking forward to the next in the series. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0571237703
• ISBN 13: 9780571237708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292