Anne Morice

The Men in her Death (eBook, ePUB)

A Tessa Crichton Mystery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'I'm assuming that you want to see a murderer caught and getting what he deserves?'

'You bet I do. In fact, I hope he gets worse than he deserves.'

When a young American girl disappears from her flat and usual London haunts, her friends and family aren't frantically worried. She is over twenty-one, of independent spirit - the type who might conceivably vanish in search of greener grass.

But Sandy Thurloe is also an heiress and a disappearance can often mean kidnapping. So her aunt by marriage is despatched to London to try to find out the circumstances of her disappearance. Her first move is to enlist the help of Tessa Crichton, soignée actress and amateur sleuth extraordinaire.

Although some puzzling and contradictory facts quickly come to light there is really nothing concrete for Tessa to get her inquisitive teeth into. Then a ransom note arrives in America. From that point events move with menacing rapidity.

This cleverly constructed mystery has all the ingredients of Anne Morice at the peak of her form: a delightful array of characters, a fast-moving plot and a truly ingenious dénouement.

The Men in her Death was originally published in 1981. This new edition features an introduction and afterword by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

'Anne Morice has a light hand, an engaging ease, and an inventive mind: all welcome qualities in the writing of crime novels.' Financial Times

'The fun lies in the style, light and sweet as a soufflé.' Daily Telegraph

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dean Street Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781914150203
• Artikelnr.: 61821256

Autorenporträt

Anne Morice, née Felicity Shaw, was born in Kent in 1916. Her mother Muriel Rose was the natural daughter of Rebecca Gould and Charles Morice. Muriel Rose married a Kentish doctor, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth. Muriel Rose's three later daughters-Angela, Felicity and Yvonne-were fathered by playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Felicity's older sister Angela became an actress, married actor and theatrical agent Robin Fox, and produced England's Fox acting dynasty, including her sons Edward and James and grandchildren Laurence, Jack, Emilia and Freddie. Felicity went to work in the office of the GPO Film Unit. There Felicity met and married documentarian Alexander Shaw. They had three children and lived in various countries. Felicity wrote two well-received novels in the 1950's, but did not publish again until successfully launching her Tessa Crichton mystery series in 1970, buying a house in Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames, on the proceeds. Her last novel was published a year after her death at the age of seventy-three on May 18th, 1989.