Death's Own Door
The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 6
$28.85
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2002
Summary
When the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there’s more to it than that. The key to the mystery stretches back to a highly-charged summer before the war, and back to another death.
A local asylum plays a part, as do a moderately famous artist and his wife; Super…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340696026 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340696028 |
| Author: | Andrew Taylor |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 111mm x 25mm |
| Series: | The Lydmouth Crime Series |
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Critics Review
Taylor’s Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past
An absorbing read - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
Taylor is building up a nice fan base for his series of mysteries set in the village of Lydmouth just after the Second World War … DEATH’S OWN DOOR will appeal to those who love a traditional English mystery novel - Irish TimesTaylor’s Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past - IndependentPage turningly complicated plots - The Oxford TimesThe most underrated crime writer in Britain today - Val McDermidAbout The Author
Andrew Taylor
A bestselling crime writer, Andrew Taylor has also worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and publisher’s reader. He has written many prize-winning crime novels and thrillers, including the William Dougal crime series, the Lydmouth crime series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy - which was televised as ITV’s Fallen Angel - and several standalone historical crime novels.
His many awards include the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2009 for sustained excellence in crime writing, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, which he has won twice - most recently for his bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, which was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade. Bleeding Heart Square won Sweden’s Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar.
Andrew Taylor is also the crime fiction reviewer of the Spectator. He lives with his wife in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of England and Wales.
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