Sergeant Verity Presents His Compliments
$39.27
- Paperback
268 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2013
Summary
Immaculate officers and rough-bearded riflemen, evangelists, card-sharps and dandies face death at attention on the sloping deck of the Birkenhead. But who was the coward hidden among the women in the lifeboat, and who was the girl who lived to report his shame?
Eight years later in the summer of 1860, the coward’s legacy unfolds, and Verity must piece together a mystery that leads him to uncover an ingenious plot: a madman’s revenge for the loss of the Birkenhead. And with this …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471904233 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471904237 |
| Author: | Francis Selwyn |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 268 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Murder Room |
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About The Author
Francis Selwyn
Francis Selwyn (a pen name of Donald Thomas) was born in Somerset and educated at Queen’s College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
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