Put Out The Light by Ethel Lina White

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Put Out The Light by Ethel Lina White

Part of Murder Room series

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'Adept at laying one icy finger on the back of your neck' Spectator

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Put Out The Light by Ethel Lina White

Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine rules as a provincial Queen Elizabeth, imperious and wealthy, vain and pathetic. But Anthea holds chained to her in financial dependence five discontented souls, all with a motive for murder. Her tentacles reach beyond her three wards and draw into their clutches her secretary, Sally Morgan, and the sardonically charming local doctor. Anthea's charms prove fatal to none but her. For, while people set their watches by the light in her bedroom window, Florence Pye reads death in the cards. Her prophecy comes true, silently, violently in the depths of the night. What Miss Pye has not foreseen, though, is that she will be first to find the body . . .
Ethel Lina White was born in Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she embarked on books. Her first three, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light, and she went on to be one of the best-known crime writers of the 1930s and 1940s in Britain and the US. Her novel The Wheel Spins (1936) was made into the acclaimed film, The Lady Vanishes, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938. Ethel Lina White died in London.
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ISBN 13 9781471917011
ISBN 10 1471917010
Title Put Out The Light
Author Ethel Lina White
Series Murder Room
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher The Murder Room
Year published 2015-05-14
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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