The first installment in the Bartlett and Boase Mysteries, a detective series set on the beautiful English Riviera during the 1920s. For fans of Agatha Christie and Golden Age crime fiction.

1921, Falmouth. Inspector George Bartlett is investigating the disappearance of a young girl, and events take a turn for the worse when a woman is found dead, badly mutilated, on a local beach. Bartlett and his assistant, Constable Archibald Boase, soon realise the woman was a local prostitute, Ivy Williams.

The murder investigation leads the men to the wealthy inhabitants of Penvale Manor House A web of illegitimacy, inheritances, and secrecy is uncovered, and soon the hangman's noose is swinging precariously over one of the suspects - but have they got the right person?

About Marina Pascoe

Marina Pascoe is a Falmothian with a lifelong interest in crime and history, having read her first Agatha Christie at the age of ten and becoming hooked!Having written several books about the history of her home county, and more recently gaining a Masters degree in Regional Histories, marina Pascoe had, for many years, hoped to see an historical murder mystery set against the backdrop of her home town, Falmouth. Having waited patiently, she decided to write a series of her own, The Bartlett and Boase Mysteries.

Additional information

Sku

GOR006815675

ISBN 13

9781783755660

ISBN 10

1783755660

Title

Empty Vessels: The Bartlett and Boase Mysteries by Marina Pascoe

Author

Marina Pascoe

Series

The Bartlett and Boase Mysteries

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Headline Publishing Group

Year published

20140305

Number of pages

250

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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