
A Sudden Vengeance
An Everett Carr Mystery
Matthew Booth(Author)
Level Best - Historia (Publisher)
Published on 14. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
979-8-89820-225-5 (ISBN)
Description
Arthur Bayliss is the owner of a successful textile business in the north of England and a newly endorsed member of the Icarus Club. He is also a tyrant and a bully. When Everett Carr accepts an invitation to stay at Darton House, Bayliss' country house in the Lancashire mill town of Darton Vale, he knows instantly that he has made a mistake.
No sooner has Carr arrived in the town than he begins to learn of acts of sabotage against Bayliss' mill, the beginnings of a personal campaign of hate against him, and a mixture of buried secrets and lies, all seemingly linked to Bayliss himself. Carr begins to suspect that Bayliss' life is in danger, but his warnings to the potential victim go unheeded.
When murder does strike, however, Carr's predictions are proved wrong - because Arthur Bayliss is not the victim.
Faced now with a seemingly motiveless crime, Everett Carr must use all his wits to discover the truth. Because Carr knows that when a killer seemingly strikes at random, nobody is safe.
Not even Everett Carr himself...
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-89820-225-5 (9798898202255)
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As a lifelong aficionado and expert on Sherlock Holmes, Matthew Booth is the author of several books and short stories about the famous detective. He wrote a number of scripts for a Holmes radio series produced by Jim French Productions in Seattle, as well as creating his own series, featuring Anthony Rathe, about a disgraced former barrister investigating crimes, for the same production company. He is the creator of Everett Carr, an amateur sleuth in the traditional mould, who appears in a series of novels which offer a contemporary twist to the classic Golden Age-style murder mystery. An expert in crime and supernatural fiction, Matthew has provided a number of academic talks on such subjects as Sherlock Holmes, the works of Agatha Christie, crime fiction, Count Dracula, and the facts and theories concerning the crimes of Jack the Ripper. He is a member of the Crime Writers' Association and is the editor of its monthly magazine, Red Herrings. He lives with his wife in Manchester, England.