John Barber

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Murder at the Fleetwood (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #5) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

DI Steve Winwood's quiet Saturday morning is ruined when one of the guests is found murdered during a Murder Mystery Weekend at the Fleetwood Arms Hotel. The first thing Winwood discovers is that many of the guests are members of the Rutherford Operatic And Dramatic Society (ROADS) and they all have solid alibis for the time of death. They were asleep. The deceased Martin Protheroe had switched rooms with Alan Stirling a member of ROADS. The group used this and similar events in other hotels to indulge in swinging weekends. Winwood sends DC Emma Porter undercover and she auditions for the chorus in ROADS' upcoming production of South Pacific. She goes to the Fleetwood Arms Hotel's Treasure Island themed dinner as the guest of Alan Stirling and finds herself sat on the same table where another actor suffers a fatal anaphylactic shock. Winwood continues to dig deeper into the lives and loves of ROADS and the secret life of Martin Protheroe. In a classic Agatha Christie style dénouement he gathers all the cast back at the Fleetwood Arms Hotel to uncover the culprit behind both murders.

Warning: Adult humour and mild sexual content throughout

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Autor

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310524332
• Artikelnr.: 70721175