The Custom of the Country
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2013
Summary
By the time Jim Gilruth returns to Pakistan, twenty years after he served as a law officer in a small village near Lahore, colonial rule has given way to Pakistani officialdom. His strange and enigmatic mission is painfully involved in the brutal clash of the old and the new - but why has he been chosen as the instrument of coercion.
Then the details of a half-forgotten murder that he had long ago adjudicated begin to come back in all their bewildering nuances, and Gilruth, in an…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471900631 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1471900630 |
| Author: | P.M. Hubbard |
| Publisher: | The Murder Room |
| Imprint: | The Murder Room |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Murder Room |
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P.M. Hubbard
Praised by critics for his clean prose style, characterization, and the strong sense of place in his novels, Philip Maitland Hubbard was born in Reading, in Berkshire and brought up in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 1933. From 1934 until its disbandment in 1947 he served with the Indian Civil service. On his return to England he worked for the British Council, eventually retiring to work as a freelance writer. He contributed to a number of publications, including Punch, and wrote 16 novels for adults as well as two children’s books. He lived in Dorset and Scotland, and many of his novels draw on his interest in and knowledge of rural pursuits and folk religion.
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