The Cruellest Month - Holt, Hazel
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In The Cruellest Month, the death of a librarian in Oxford's New Bodleian library stirs Sheila Malory, whom readers first met in Mrs. Malory Investigates, to probe the victim's past. Sheila's godson Tony, who works at the library, finds Ms. Richmond crushed under some collapsed bookshelves. Could Gwen have been a blackmailer? Could she have been murdered? Among the suspects-all once threatened by Gwen-are a girl Tony is in love with and a female don who has stolen an important artifact from an archeological dig. Sheila then reencounters Trinity don Professor Edward Fitzgerald, who had…mehr

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In The Cruellest Month, the death of a librarian in Oxford's New Bodleian library stirs Sheila Malory, whom readers first met in Mrs. Malory Investigates, to probe the victim's past. Sheila's godson Tony, who works at the library, finds Ms. Richmond crushed under some collapsed bookshelves. Could Gwen have been a blackmailer? Could she have been murdered? Among the suspects-all once threatened by Gwen-are a girl Tony is in love with and a female don who has stolen an important artifact from an archeological dig. Sheila then reencounters Trinity don Professor Edward Fitzgerald, who had significantly influenced her life when she was an Oxford student; he also had unhappy ties to the dead woman. But it is the past as recounted in Gwen's diary during WW II that provides the key to the murder and forces Sheila to reexamine what she had considered a happy time in her life. Holt's civilized and tantalizing mystery explores both modern Oxford and rural wartime England.
Widow Sheila Malory has been looking forward to her stay at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a chance to research wartime women writers and catch up with old friends from her college years, the one "purely happy" time in her whole life. Her relaxing idyll is interrupted when a librarian, Gwen Richmond, is crushed to death beneath collapsed bookshelves. After the "accident" proves to be murder, Mrs. Malory's godson Tony, who also works in the library, asks her to help investigate. Gwen was manipulative and unpleasant, so there are no shortage of suspects. The dead woman's World War II diary reveal dreadful truths that may lead to the killer; they will also force Mrs. Malory to revisit the past in a new and colder light. The second of Hazel Holt's Mrs. Malory mysteries.
Autorenporträt
Hazel Holt originated from Birmingham, England, where she attendedKing Edward VI High School for Girls. She studied at Newnham College,Cambridge, and went on to work at the International African Institute inLondon, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym,whose biography she later wrote. Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties and is a leading crimenovelist.She is best known for her "Sheila Malory" series. Her son is the novelist Tom Holt.