Alice Campbell

Keep Away From Water! (eBook, ePUB)

A Golden Age Mystery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why the warning about water? Or rather why any warning at all?

Miss Venables, a rich and kindly old lady, is the recipient of several threatening letters. Her young companion, Sarah MacNeil, wonders who can possibly bear a grudge against her employer, and energetically endeavours to find out who is threatening her. Together they set out for France, but just on the point of departure they receive a shattering communication which reads: 'Go to France if you like, but once there, keep away from water.' In this clever detective story Mrs. Campbell once more proves herself an expert purveyor of thrills.

Keep Away From Water! was originally published in 1935. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

"She could not be unexciting if she tried" Times Literary Supplement

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dean Street Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781915014993
• Artikelnr.: 63999183

Autorenporträt

Alice Campbell (1887-1955) came originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was part of the socially prominent Ormond family. She moved to New York City at the age of nineteen and quickly became a socialist and women's suffragist. Later she moved to Paris, marrying the American-born artist and writer James Lawrence Campbell, with whom she had a son in 1914.Just before World War One, the family left France for England, where the couple had two more children, a son and a daughter. Campbell wrote crime fiction until 1950, though many of her novels continued to have French settings. She published her first work (Juggernaut) in 1928. She wrote nineteen detective novels during her career.