Dead Man Riding - Hardcover

Linscott, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750521821 ISBN 13: 9780750521826

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2004

Synopsis

'Linscott writes like a rewarding angel' SUNDAY TIMES Young Nell Bray is doing her best to live up to the standards of conduct demanded of an Oxford woman student in 1900. A summer reading party in the company of male undergraduates is frowned upon, but given the opportunity of fresh air and Greek philosophy in the Lake District, she can't refuse. She and her friends discover a house under siege and are met by a shotgun blast from their host. Events take an even more desperate turn when a silver stallion gallops out of the mist with a dead man on his back...

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About the Author

Gillian Linscott has been a journalist with the GUARDIAN and Parliamentary Correspondent with the BBC. Two Nell Bray novels have been dramatised on BBC Radio 4.

From Publishers Weekly

Set during the summer of 1900, the superb 10th Nell Bray mystery (after 2001's The Perfect Daughter) turns Victorian convention on its head with delightful results. Nell and two of her girlfriends, Imogen and Midge, all of whom are free-thinking Oxford students, agree to accompany three male students and one young faculty member on a reading holiday. Fellow student Alan has invited the entire party to be his guests on his uncle's Lake District farm. When gunfire meets their arrival, the group soon realizes that they have quite literally walked into the midst of a small but deadly private war. Alan's uncle, dubbed by all the Old Man, is despised by neighbors and townsfolk alike and is suspected of having murdered a local magistrate's son, who has recently disappeared. Sexual tension fuels the fires as Alan and his closest friend, Kit, become points in a volatile triangle with the fair-haired Imogen. Love, or at least lust, is indeed in the air, and none of the group seems to be unaffected. Yet love interests take a back seat when the Old Man's favorite horse gallops up with his master's dead body tied in the saddle. And when the Old Man's will leaves a handsome legacy to the unborn child of his housekeeper, Nell makes up her mind to get to the bottom of things. Linscott has combined a wonderful cast of characters with a clever, unexpected resolution.the 2000 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750521821
• ISBN 13: 9780750521826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432