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Synopsis
Janet Creswell, while struggling to come to terms with her husband's sudden death, received a letter and a visit from a man named Richard Medley. A former university professor, he had been a pupil at Brantwood, a boys' preparatory school in Sussex, where, for one term in 1944, she had been matron. Their meeting brings back many memories to her, but also raises some doubts. Was the headmaster, Edward Blackstone, with his maltreatment of his daughter and the boys, merely an eccentric, or was he deeply disturbed, mad, or even being poisoned? And had his death by drowning in the swimming pool been an accident, or had he been murdered? What starts as simple curiosity, becomes near obsession as Janet meets several of those involved in the school at that time—both pupils and staff—and finally discovers the truth about all those distant and disturbing events.
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About the Author
Peter Conway lives in Somerset. He is a prolific writer and Hale has published twenty-four of his novels, the most recent being Locked In.
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In this pedestrian whodunit from British author Conway (Locked In), Janet Creswell, a retired doctor who'd been the undermatron at Brantwood, a boarding school near Midhurst, in the 1940s, allows a professor who'd been one of her charges back then to revive her suppressed memories of the circumstances surrounding the death of Edward Blackstone, Brantwood's headmaster. Blackstone was found in the school swimming pool, apparently the victim of an accident. Creswell seeks out others who were at the school at the time, including Blackstone's daughter, who was Brantwood's sole female student, but whose gender and relationship to the sadistic headmaster didn't spare her from corporal punishments. The lack of plot twists, dearth of memorable characters and unnecessary embedding of flashbacks within flashbacks make this an unmemorable read. (June)
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- PublisherRobert Hale
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0709083254
- ISBN 13 9780709083252
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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