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Beschreibung
CORA HARRISON
SUMMER OF SECRETS

August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyons. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death.

With everyone involved in the play falling under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. But their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back almost twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating consequences for the present .
CORA HARRISON
SUMMER OF SECRETS

August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyons. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death.

With everyone involved in the play falling under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. But their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back almost twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating consequences for the present .
Über den Autor
Cora Harrison turned to writing historical fiction after she retired from teaching to live on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. As well as the Gaslight mysteries, she is the author of the Reverend Mother mysteries, and the 'Mara' series of Celtic mysteries, set in 16th century Ireland.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: A Gaslight Mystery
ISBN-13: 9780727890399
ISBN-10: 0727890395
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harrison, Cora
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Canongate Books
A Gaslight Mystery
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 146 x 224 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Cora Harrison
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2020
Gewicht: 0,406 kg
Artikel-ID: 121920691