Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness e-bog
67,78 DKK
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The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm PryceIt's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to...
E-bog
67,78 DKK
Forlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Udgivet
13 maj 2021
Længde
384 sider
Genrer
Fiction and Related items
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781526643575
The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm PryceIt's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak.But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother long believed to be dead may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth.But if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them