An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to get them entangled in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust...
An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel's death, events conspire to get them entangled in a cat's cradle of mutual disloyalties - with undercurrents of malice and distrust...
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'Reveals Brown as a stylist with a line in sharp dialogue. Part-time PI Elizabeth Blair and partner Max are hired to prove a man innocent of murder... The crackling relationship between the principles makes for a higher entertaining read' Crime Writers' Supplement. The Times on Double Wedding Ring; 'Lizbie Brown's novel bursts open with all the fanfare of the wedding march... She unpicks the flaws in the characters of this intricate mystery' Oxford Times on Double Wedding Ring; 'An entertaining story with a classic English village setting, rich in intrigue and deception. Elizabeth... Is a lively and perceptive sleuth' Manchester Evening News on Jacob's Ladder
'Reveals Brown as a stylist with a line in sharp dialogue. Part-time PI Elizabeth Blair and partner Max are hired to prove a man innocent of murder... The crackling relationship between the principles makes for a higher entertaining read' Crime Writers' Supplement. The Times on Double Wedding Ring; 'Lizbie Brown's novel bursts open with all the fanfare of the wedding march... She unpicks the flaws in the characters of this intricate mystery' Oxford Times on Double Wedding Ring; 'An entertaining story with a classic English village setting, rich in intrigue and deception. Elizabeth... Is a lively and perceptive sleuth' Manchester Evening News on Jacob's Ladder
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Höhe: 32 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 241 mm
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978-0-340-76820-4 (9780340768204)
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Lizbie Brown, mother of a grown-up son and daughter, was brought up in Cornwall and now lives with her husband near Bristol.
Lizbie Brown, mother of a grown-up son and daughter, was brought up in Cornwall and now lives with her husband near Bristol.
