Sexton Blake on the Home Front: Volume 4
Published on 18. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
500 pages
978-1-78108-802-9 (ISBN)
Description
SPY-MASTERS, NAZIS AND SECRETS
It's the Second World War, and Sexton Blake is matching minds with the very best... and the very worst.
When an innocent woman is condemned as a spy and her fiance arrested while trying to escape to France, Sexton and Tinker have to travel into enemy territory in their hunt for the mastermind... and on the home front, a man is found murdered - but the suspect doesn't know if he did it! Who else to find the truth but Sexton Blake?
Join the greatest detective as he battles with a mysterious house, a ring of traitors - and a deadly secret.
It's the Second World War, and Sexton Blake is matching minds with the very best... and the very worst.
When an innocent woman is condemned as a spy and her fiance arrested while trying to escape to France, Sexton and Tinker have to travel into enemy territory in their hunt for the mastermind... and on the home front, a man is found murdered - but the suspect doesn't know if he did it! Who else to find the truth but Sexton Blake?
Join the greatest detective as he battles with a mysterious house, a ring of traitors - and a deadly secret.
Reviews / Votes
"Delighted to see Sexton Blake still going strong - and with such aplomb!" -- Agatha Christie "Makes Jack Reacher look like a bungling amateur...definitely not be missed." - The Crime Review "The Sexton Blake Saga is the nearest approach to a national folk-lore" -- Dorothy L. SayersMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78108-802-9 (9781781088029)
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Person
Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). He also writes short stories, flash fiction and vignettes. Find out more on his Patreon page. Mark was born in the UK. He has worked as a commercial radio scriptwriter, a freelance copywriter, and as a web content producer for the BBC. Since 2009, he has lived in Valencia, Spain, where he writes full-time. He and his partner have twins, Luca and Iris.