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Synopsis
Energetic sufragette Nell Bray, off on a climbing holiday, sees a rescue team unearthing an Englishman lost to a glacier thirty years ago and cannot resist getting involved when she learns his death may not have been an accident
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From Publishers Weekly
It's 1910, and nosy, energetic Nell Bray, British suffragette and sometime sleuth seen last in Stage Fright, is vacationing at the resort town of Chamonix in the French Alps. Nell is climbing a mountain slope when the body of Arthur Mordiford is freed from the ice nearby?30 years after he and his guide were lost to an avalanche. Arriving to claim the body are the victim's wealthy brother Gregory (a member of the original climbing party), who has brought his son, daughter and a nephew, who hires Nell as interpreter to help with the red tape. They are staying with the guide's widow, Marie, and her daughter Sylvie. A diary found on Arthur's body raises questions about Sylvie's parentage and tensions abound, reaching a climax after Gregory, leading a family pilgrimage to the site of the body's discovery, is poisoned and Marie is arrested for his murder. Nell joins forces with Arthur's onetime fiancee, for many years a contented recluse in the area, to find the truth about the brothers' deaths, past and present. Plotting goes from over-elaborate to numbing in this tale best recommended for its well-crafted evocation of time and place.
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From Booklist
A new addition to the mystery series featuring Nell Bray, the turn-of-the-century British feminist. Disgusted by the House of Commons' rejection of the suffrage bill of 1910, Nell embarks on a mountain-climbing trip to Chamonix in the French Alps. Her retreat is interrupted, however, when a frozen body is discovered in the snow. Quickly identified as an Englishman who died in a climbing accident 30 years earlier, the body is claimed by the victim's family, who hires Nell as an interpreter. Soon Nell is embroiled in intrigue as the "accident" turns out to be murder, and then death rears its head again. Although both sleuth and setting are unique, they never overpower the plot--there are sufficient twists and turns here to keep even the most inveterate puzzle solvers happy. An entertaining romp. Ilene Cooper
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0786203625
- ISBN 13 9780786203628
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages292
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