Death Called to the Bar
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2007
Summary
Queen’s Inn is London’s youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead, and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to discreetly investigate the matter of the murdered barristers.
His inquiries take him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the dead can reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845293826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845293827 |
| Author: | David Dickinson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Lord Francis Powerscourt |
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Critics Review
A cracking yarn, beguilingly real from start to finish… you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction - or is it?
In this excellent novel, Dickinson weaves a tale of blackmail and murder among the royals late in Victoria’s reign… Dickinson’s knowledge of the arts, history and literature is nothing if not exhaustive, and adds enormously to the overall background… One hopes to see more of Lord Powerscourt and his friends in the near future. - Publishers Weekly
This is detective fiction in the grand style; the characters and the plot soar upwards and carry us in their wake. Powerscourt’s debut in this intoxicating book is the start of a gilded life in the archives of crime.Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail as thick as the oil paint on one of his favourite paintings by Turner. - Kirkus ReviewsA cracking yarn, beguilingly real from start to finish… you have to pinch yourself to remind you that it is fiction - or is it?David 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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