The Elusive Bowman - Vivian, Francis
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"He's dead all right. Taken him clean through the heart. It's murder, Rose!" Michael Maddison, the host of the Fox Inn, is hellbent on preventing his sister and niece from marrying-a difficult task when both ladies are being ardently courted in the district. When one of the suitors, expert archer Harry Saunders, finds two of his lethal arrows missing, it seems Maddison is in deadly earnest-yet it is the latter who is found murdered, two green-and-white fletched arrows sticking out of his ribs. Inspector Knollis is back on cracking form in this, his seventh mystery. A tale of archery and…mehr

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"He's dead all right. Taken him clean through the heart. It's murder, Rose!" Michael Maddison, the host of the Fox Inn, is hellbent on preventing his sister and niece from marrying-a difficult task when both ladies are being ardently courted in the district. When one of the suitors, expert archer Harry Saunders, finds two of his lethal arrows missing, it seems Maddison is in deadly earnest-yet it is the latter who is found murdered, two green-and-white fletched arrows sticking out of his ribs. Inspector Knollis is back on cracking form in this, his seventh mystery. A tale of archery and assasination in which Knollis must pull from his own quiver the solution lest the mysterious Bowman strike again . . . The Elusive Bowman was originally published in 1951. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "Mr. Vivian keeps his story as taut as the string on his elusive murderer's bow." Liverpool Evening Express "Francis Vivian skips all tedious preliminaries and is commendably quick off the mark; we meet his characters with lively pleasure." Observer
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Francis Vivian was born Arthur Ernest Ashley in 1906 at East Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was the younger brother of noted photographer Hallam Ashley. Vivian laboured for a decade as a painter and decorator before becoming an author of popular fiction in 1932. In 1940 he married schoolteacher Dorothy Wallwork, and the couple had a daughter. After the Second World War he became assistant editor at the Nottinghamshire Free Press and circuit lecturer on many subjects, ranging from crime to bee-keeping (the latter forming a major theme in the Inspector Knollis mystery The Singing Masons). A founding member of the Nottingham Writers' Club, Vivian once awarded first prize in a writing competition to a young Alan Sillitoe, the future bestselling author. The ten Inspector Knollis mysteries were published between 1941 and 1956. In the novels, ingenious plotting and fair play are paramount. A colleague recalled that 'the reader could always arrive at a correct solution from the given data. Inspector Knollis never picked up an undisclosed clue which, it was later revealed, held the solution to the mystery all along.' Francis Vivian died on April 2, 1979 at the age of 73.