The Lazarus Tree

Richardson, Robert

ISBN 10: 0575053445 / ISBN 13: 9780575053441

Published by Gollancz, 1992

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1st Gollancz edition 1992 fine hardcover book in fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lazarus Tree
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575053445
• ISBN 13: 9780575053441
• Binding: First Edition
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: fine/fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Gus Maltravers plumbs the connection between the strange behavior of his friend's stepdaughter and the murder of a famous London poet underneath a legendary tree in a picturesque English village. Reprint. K.

From Publishers Weekly

Witchcraft, murder and a grisly legend cling to the roots of an old chestnut tree in Richardson's (Murder in Waiting) literate but flawed new English mystery. Amateur sleuth Augustus Maltravers investigates the recent murder of poet Patrick Gabriel in the isolated Devon village of Medmelton at the request of old friend Stephen Hart. He finds close-mouthed inhabitants guarding buried secrets. Who fathered Stephen's sexy teenage stepdaughter Michelle, and why is she having clandestine meetings with the bitter woman who owns the general store? What is the local rector doing behind closed doors? Maltravers's arrival disrupts the routine of an obsessive/compulsive banker and raises anew the question of the whereabouts of the dead poet's latest manuscript. Playwright Maltravers dreams up ingenious charades to flush out the required answers to the conundrum, but painstaking characterization cannot compensate for a wobbly narrative and little menace or suspense.
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