Remarkable Case of Burglary

Henry R.F. Keating

ISBN 10: 0380009838 / ISBN 13: 9780380009831

Published by Avon, 1977

About this Item

Light edge wear to the covers. Two spine creases. Pages toned with age. Otherwise a clean unmarked copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1520292075170

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remarkable Case of Burglary
• Publisher: Avon
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380009838
• ISBN 13: 9780380009831
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1975, A Remarkable Case of Burglary tells of Val Leary, who is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fools' Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary.The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...Set in the Upstairs, Downstairs world of Victorian England, this is an ingenious and gripping tale by the acknowledged master of the English crime novel.

About the Author

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he describes as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.