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Roundabout
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Artikel-Nr:
9781447256946
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.10.2013
Seiten:
186
Autor:
Eileen Dewhurst
Gewicht:
292 g
Format:
234x156x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An only child, Eileen Dewhurst was self-sufficient and bookish from an early age, preferring solitude or one-to-one contacts to groups, and hating sport. Her first attempts at writing were not auspicious. At 14, a would-be family saga was aborted by an uncle discovering it and quoting from it choked with laughter. A second setback came a few years later at school, when a purple passage was returned with the words 'Cut this cackle!' written across it in red ink: a chastening lesson in how embellishments can weaken rather than strengthen one's message.
When friends Maggie and Carol disappear while on a seaside jaunt, their husbands turn to the Peter Piper Detective Agency for help. But the missing persons case suddenly turns deadly serious: a resident's complain of scavenging foxes leads to the remains of the two women on a wooded roundabout in the small coastal town of Seaminster. Phyllida Moon, actress and private eye, is sent to investigate. Her impenetrable disguises win her unique entry into the lives of the victims' family and friends. And gradually she begins to suspect that Carol's daughter, Sally, knows more than she is prepared to reveal to anyone . . .