Murder in a Parish Chest: Peggy Pinch Investigates - Softcover

Noble, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783060565 ISBN 13: 9781783060566

Publisher: Matador, 2013

Synopsis

Peggy Pinch, the policeman's wife, is the only one who knows that Tug Macaulay was asleep in his bed when Cedar Wells was murdered. But if Peggy tells the truth, she will not only set tongues wagging but also prove that her husband has put words in the suspect's mouth. Her only way through her dilemma is to identify the real murderer before too many questions are asked. It's 1926 and there's no more wicked place for gossip than the village Post Office before lunchtime. Choosing her friends carefully, Peggy gathers clues from the retired schoolmistress, a peculiar professor and the most unruly child in the village and uncovers the truth beneath the tittle-tattle. Press reviews praised Malcolm Noble's Peggy Pinch, Policeman's Wife as darkly funny, beautifully written and strangely moving. This eagerly awaited sequel has all of those qualities and will delight his growing readership.

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About the Author

malcolm noble served in the Hampshire Police, a chapter of his life that provides some background to his crime fiction. He has written eleven mystery novels set in the south of England from the 1920s to the 1960s (Peggy Pinch, Policeman's Wife, A Mystery of Cross Women, The Case of the Dirty Verger, Timberdick's First Case, Liking Good Jazz, Piggy Tucker's Poison, The Parish of Frayed Ends, The Clue of the Curate's Cushion, The Case of the Naughty Wife, The Poisons of Goodladies Road). Reviews have emphasised his sense of place and atmosphere, his strong characterisation and first rate storytelling. Malcolm lives in Market Harborough where he and his wife run a secondhand bookshop

Edition details

• Publisher: Matador
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1783060565
• ISBN 13: 9781783060566
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 179