Undertow : An Inspector Stride Mystery

Curran, Thomas Rendell

ISBN 10: 1550811932 / ISBN 13: 9781550811933

Published by Breakwater Books Limited, Saint Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, 2004

About this Item

The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the full title page. The book is near fine with slight edge wear and light crease at upper corner of the front cover.

Seller Inventory # 014201

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Undertow : An Inspector Stride Mystery
• Publisher: Breakwater Books Limited, Saint Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550811932
• ISBN 13: 9781550811933
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

May 1947 in St. John’s, a woman is brutally murdered in her bath. In the same neighbourhood, in 1943, a young American soldier was also murdered, a crime that was never solved. Two murders, four years apart. One killer or two? Inspector Eric Stride of the Newfoundland Constabulary uncovers a complex web of evidence and circumstance, following a trail that goes back more than twenty years. Along the way, Stride finds that his own life is in danger. Undertow is set against the backdrop of wartime and post-war Newfoundland, in a time of social and political upheaval.

About the Author

Thomas Rendell Curran was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1939.

He was educated at Holloway School, Prince of Wales College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Toronto. For more than twenty years he was a senior researcher and writer with the Parliamentary Research Branch in Ottawa. Undertow, his first novel, is set in St. John’s, partly in the neighbourhood where he grew up. He currently lives in Ottawa.