| In the Mayor's parlour Contributor(s): Ballin, G-Ph (Editor), Fletcher, J. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544050755 ISBN-13: 9781544050751 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.89 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: THE MAYOR'S PARLOUR Hathelsborough market-place lies in the middle of the town-a long, somewhat narrow parallelogram, enclosed on its longer side by old gabled houses; shut in on its western end by the massive bulk of the great parish church of St. Hathelswide, Virgin and Martyr, and at its eastern by the ancient walls and high roofs of its medi val Moot Hall. The inner surface of this space is paved with cobble-stones, worn smooth by centuries of usage: it is only of late years that the conservative spirit of the old borough has so far accommodated itself to modern requirements as to provide foot-paths in front of the shops and houses. But there that same spirit has stopped; the utilitarian of to-day would sweep away, as being serious hindrances to wheeled traffic, the two picturesque fifteenth-century erections which stand in this market-place; these, High Cross and Low Cross, one at the east end, in front of the Moot Hall, the other at the west, facing the chancel of the church, remain, to the delight of the arch ologist, as instances of the fashion in which our forefathers built gathering places in the very midst of narrow thoroughfares. Joseph Smith Fletcher (Halifax, Yorkshire de l'Ouest, 7 f vrier 1863 - Dorking, Surrey, 30 janvier 1935), mieux connu sous le signature J.S. Fletcher, est un journaliste, un po te et un crivain britannique de roman policier. Fils d'un eccl siastique, il fr quente une cole de Wakefield avant de se rendre Londres o il se destine l' tude du Droit. D s l' ge de 18 ans, il embrasse la double carri re d' crivain et de journaliste. Pour des magazines londoniens, il r dige une s rie d'articles sous le pseudonyme de Son of the Soil, concernant l'histoire et les coutumes de r gions rurales d'Angleterre, notamment de son Yorkshire natal. Il aborde la litt rature par la po sie, s'int resse ensuite la publication d'essais, d'ouvrages religieux et surtout de romans historiques, dont plusieurs monographies romanc es de grands personnages, avant de publier un premier roman, Frank Carisbroke's Stratagem; or, Lost and Won, en 1888. Avec Andrewlina, il signe en 1889 son premier roman policier, un genre auquel il r serve presque exclusivement sa plume partir de 1914, produisant plus d'une centaine de romans et de recueils de nouvelles jusqu'en 1935. Ses r cits policiers h sitent d'abord entre le roman d'aventures, le thriller anglais et le roman d' nigme, o l'enqu te est parfois men e par l'inspecteur Skarratt de Scotland Yard ou par le sergent Charlesworth, d tective de la police anglaise. la fin de sa carri re, Fletcher penche r solument en faveur du roman d' nigme dans plusieurs textes o appara t son h ros r current le plus cons quent, le d tective priv Ronald Camberwell. |