E. R. Punshon

Diabolic Candelabra

A Bobby Owen Mystery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Ode to a chocolate," murmured Bobby. Olive, Inspector Bobby Owen's wife, is on a mission to obtain the recipe for some uncommonly good chocolates. But the most innocent beginning means trouble for Bobby Owen: take one wood-dwelling hermit, a girl who talks to animals, an evil stepfather and two exceedingly valuable works of art, and you have the recipe, not for chocolate, but for one of Punshon's most satisfying and devilish mysteries. This beguiling story of labyrinths and seemingly impossible murder is a challenge and a treat for armchair sleuths everywhere. Diabolic Candelabra was originally published in 1942. It is the seventeenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series including thirty-five novels. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "What is distinction? … in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dean Street Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781911413332
• ISBN-10: 1911413333
• Artikelnr.: 45731768

Autorenporträt

E.R. Punshon was born in London in 1872. At the age of fourteen he started life in an office. His employers soon informed him that he would never make a really satisfactory clerk, and he, agreeing, spent the next few years wandering about Canada and the United States, endeavouring without great success to earn a living in any occupation that offered. Returning home by way of working a passage on a cattle boat, he began to write. He contributed to many magazines and periodicals, wrote plays, and published nearly fifty novels, among which his detective stories proved the most popular and enduring. He died in 1956.