A Death in Mayfair - A gripping World War 2 mystery

December 1941. On a bright Sunday morning in Hawaii, Japanese planes swoop down and attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. America enters the war and Britain no longer stands alone against Hitler. Conditions on the home front remain bleak. In a city pulverised by the Blitz, with rampant crime and corruption and overstretched police resources, life for Scotland Yard detective Frank Merlin continues as arduous as ever. In the week of Japan's aggression, the shattered body of beautiful film star Laura Curzon is found on the pavement beneath her Mayfair apartment, an apparent suicide. A mile away, the body of a strangled young girl is discovered in the rubble of a bombed-out building. Merlin and his team investigate, encountering fraudulent film moguls, philandering movie stars, depraved Satanists and brutal gangsters as they battle through a wintry London in pursuit of the truth.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ellis
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781786156723
• ISBN: 978-1-78615-672-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The DCI Frank Merlin Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; London, Greater London, City of London, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, c 1940 to c 1949