Fountain Inn
Published on 12. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-78842-179-9 (ISBN)
Description
What's going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn?
When her employer suddenly disappears, young Grace Kirkstall finds herself accepting a new job at a new company in the same building - an oasis of tranquillity off the streets of London.
Ben and Helen Brown's startup company's pitch is that, for a small consideration, they will help people out of their major and minor fixes. Their first big commission initiates Ben into the gentle art of house-breaking, and Helen into the mysteries of the Society for Progressive Rehabilitation...
But for Grace, it will plunge her into more danger than she could ever have imagined.
This leisurely, beautifully observed thriller marked Victor Canning's entree into crime fiction, and rewards with a thrilling finale - sure to delight fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence.
When her employer suddenly disappears, young Grace Kirkstall finds herself accepting a new job at a new company in the same building - an oasis of tranquillity off the streets of London.
Ben and Helen Brown's startup company's pitch is that, for a small consideration, they will help people out of their major and minor fixes. Their first big commission initiates Ben into the gentle art of house-breaking, and Helen into the mysteries of the Society for Progressive Rehabilitation...
But for Grace, it will plunge her into more danger than she could ever have imagined.
This leisurely, beautifully observed thriller marked Victor Canning's entree into crime fiction, and rewards with a thrilling finale - sure to delight fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Victor Canning:'Quite delightful ... with an atmosphere of quiet contentment and humour that cannot fail to charm' Daily Telegraph 'There is such a gentle humour in the book' Daily Sketch 'What counts for most in the story ... is his mounting pleasure in vagabondage and the English scene' The Times 'A paean to the beauties of the English countryside and the lovable oddities of the English character' New York Times 'His delight at the beauties of the countryside and his mild astonishment at the strange ways of men are infectious' Daily Telegraph 'A swift-moving novel, joyous, happy and incurably optimistic' Evening Standard 'His gift of story-telling is obviously innate. Rarely does one come on so satisfying an amalgam of plot, characterisation and good writing' Punch
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Duckworth Books
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78842-179-9 (9781788421799)
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Victor Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was published when he was twenty-three. It proved to be a runaway bestseller. Canning also wrote for children: his trilogy The Runaways was adapted for US children's television. Canning's later thrillers were darker and more complex than his earlier work and received further critical acclaim.