Francis Iles

Malice Aforethought (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A classic crime masterpiece - and major TV adaptation

On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the game. The tennis party exists for other reasons - and charmingly mannered infidelity is now the most popular pastime in the small but exclusive Devonshire hamlet of Wyvern's Cross.

Which is why, in his own garden, the host, Dr Edmund Bickleigh, is desperately fighting to conceal the two things on his mind: a mounting passion for Gwynfryd Rattery - and the certain conviction that he is going to kill his wife . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409109129
• Artikelnr.: 39267581

Autorenporträt

Francis Iles was the pseudonym for Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 - 1971). He was born in Watford and served in World War One before working as a journalist for Punch and The Humorist magazines. He wrote his first novel in 1925 and enjoyed success with his many detective novels and short stories. In 1930 he co-founded the famous Detection Club alongside famous crime writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. He wrote three novels under the pseudonym Francis Iles of which Malice Aforethought was the most famous.

Rezensionen

A fascinating insight into a troubled mind, and a gripping thriller, the novel has been twice adapted for television with Hywel Bennett and Ben Miller in the main part '1,000 novels everyone must read: Crime' Guardian