Summer of Secrets

CORA HARRISON
SUMMER OF SECRETS

August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyons. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death.

With everyone involved in the play falling under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. But their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back almost twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating consequences for the present .

A propos de l'auteur

Cora Harrison turned to writing historical fiction after she retired from teaching to live on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. As well as the Reverend Mother series, she is the author of the 'Mara' series of Celtic mysteries, set in sixteenth-century Ireland, and the new Gaslight mystery series set in Victorian London.

www.coraharrison.com

Résumé

August, 1856. The dress rehearsal for a charity performance at Knebworth House is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, spending the summer at Knebworth House, feel compelled to investigate.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Cora Harrison, Harrison Cora
• Edition: Canongate Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780727890399
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-9039-9
• Pages: 224
• Thème: A Gaslight Mystery
• Catégories: Littérature > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Hertfordshire, c 1800 to c 1900, Historical crime and mysteries, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives