Pel and the Faceless Corpse - Softcover

Hebden, Mark

4.1 out of 5 stars

114 ratings by Goodreads

9780802731005: Pel and the Faceless Corpse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802731007 ISBN 13: 9780802731005

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1984

View all copies of this ISBN edition

2 Used

From US$ 2.85

0 New

The corpse of an elderly man is found brutally murdered on the grounds of the estate of Paul-Edouard Piot, and Inspector Pel is called in to investigate

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of 'Mark Hebden' and 'Max Hennessy', was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling and later filmed 'The Sea Shall Not Have Them', a story of survival and rescue from World War II which continues to be periodically screened on TV. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the War Harris managed to serve with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, he wrote adventure stories, war novels, political thrillers, and also created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky French Chief Inspector Pel, centred primarily in Burgundy, but occasionally Paris and elsewhere. Harris was unusually versatile and wide ranging as an author. Epics such as 'China Seas', which deals with human tragedy, war and revolution in an authentic historical setting, and the three trilogies written under the pseudonym Max Hennessy - one of which, the Kelly Maguire series commencing with 'Lion at Sea' is reckoned to be amongst the finest modern war-at-sea stories written - along with African adventure novels, wide-ranging crime, mysteries and historical fiction, all guarantee a whole library of diverse and entertaining reading full of dry wit and gripping prose.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.