Murder in Piccadilly Contributor(s): Kingston, Charles (Author), Edwards, Martin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1464203733 ISBN-13: 9781464203732 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: 823.912 |
LCCN: 2014958056 |
Series: British Library Crime Classics |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 314 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder. This good-natured vintage mystery novel is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards, the leading expert on inter-war detective fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kingston, Charles: - " CHARLES KINGSTON (1884-1944) wrote over twenty crime novels in the golden age of British crime fiction between the two World Wars. Many of his books - including Poison in Kensington and The Highgate Mystery - are set in London. All have been unavailable for many decades, and Kingston's work has long been neglected by readers of classic crime fiction. " |