Death in a Scarlet Coat
$44.21
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
20 December 2001
Summary
Master of the Hunt, the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby, has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse, wrapped in blankets across his horse, a corner of his scarlet coat visible in the morning mist. Only three people see the body. One dies. Another vanishes. Now only one man knows how he was killed. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate murder in a crumbling house where the paper is peeling off the walls and the stuffed owls each only have one leg.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780331584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780331584 |
| Author: | David Dickinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 20 December 2001 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Lord Francis Powerscourt |
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Critics Review
Beguilingly real from start to finish… you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction - or is it?– Peter Snow
Splendid entertainment. - Publishers Weekly
Detective fiction in the grand style. - James NaughtieBeguilingly real from start to finish… you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction - or is it? - Peter SnowDickinson’s customary historical tidbits and patches of local colour swathed in … appealing Victorian narrative. - Kirkus ReviewsDavid Dickinson
David Dickinson was born in Dublin. With an honours degree in Classics from Cambridge, David Dickinson joined the BBC, where he became editor of Newsnight and Panorama, as well as series editor for Monarchy, a three-part programme on the British royal family.
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