David Stuart Davies

The Dead of Winter (eBook, ePUB)

A Rupert Wilde Mystery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries.

Having survived the First World War and been decorated for his efforts, Rupert Wilde is now back in civvy street wondering what to do with his life. On a whim he accepts his Aunt Julia's invitation to a Christmas house party at Pelham House in the wilds of rural Norfolk. He takes with him his newly appointed assistant Kishen, a young Oxford educated Indian whom he met when he rescued him from a violent mugging. Little did Wilde know that there would be murder, intrigue and mutilated bodies awaiting him behind the ancient walls of Pelham House. Wilde and Kishen turn detective to get to the bottom of these puzzling and ghastly festive felonies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Level Best Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781685120993
• Artikelnr.: 63553887

Autorenporträt

David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright, and editor. He has written nine Sherlock Holmes novels and Starring Sherlock Holmes, which details the film career of the famous sleuth. He has also created several detective series set variously in London during World War II, New York in the 1930s, and in 1980s Yorkshire. His non-fiction work includes Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, which is regarded as the definitive work on the subject. Currently, he is the general contributing editor for Wordsworth Editions Mystery & Supernatural series. He is a Baker Street Irregular, and a member of the Crime Writers' Association (he edited their monthly magazine Red Herrings for twenty years) and The Detection Club. He has given talks and dramatic presentations on crime fiction and his collections of ghost stories at various literary festivals, libraries, and conferences as well as on the Queen Mary II.