Property of Lies, The
Marjorie Eccles
Belletristik / Historische Kriminalromane
Beschreibung
DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls’ boarding school.
1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who – or what – she claimed to be. Who was she really – and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth?
Then a pupil goes missing – and the case takes a disturbing new twist …
Kundenbewertungen
1900s, 20th century, cosy, cosy mystery, murder mystery, murder, 1930s, cozy, Country house mystery, cozy mystery, historical mystery, inter-war period, girls' boarding school, police procedural, historical