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The Case of Alan Copeland: A Golden Age Mystery

The Case of Alan Copeland: A Golden Age Mystery - Paperback

by Moray Dalton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Moray DaltonPublish date:2020-03-02Pages:228
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781913054830ISBN-10:1913054837UPC:9781913054830Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:TraditionalSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCQ6Z8VFZV

"I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?"

"There was death in it."

The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. The schoolmistress is an artist manqu , her quick brain wasted for lack of opportunity. There is old Mrs. Simmons at the filling station, gloating over her discreditable past, and bullying her flighty young daughter. The fastidious Reverend Perry is more interested in his books than curing souls, and his niece dreams of romance but wakes to deadly realities. The prim, self-satisfied Miss Gort does most of the work of the parish; and the harassed poultry farmer, an artist once, is driven to desperation by an elderly nagging wife.

When one member of this little circle dies, natural causes are assumed; but eighteen months later the word "murder," whispered at first, becomes officially suspected. The evidence against one person seems conclusive, and the police make an arrest. But the trial takes an unexpected turn--and a second victim of the unknown killer is saved only just in time.

The Case of Alan Copeland, a classic court-room drama, was originally published in 1937. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781913054830ISBN-10:1913054837UPC:9781913054830Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:TraditionalSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCQ6Z8VFZV
Dalton, Moray: - Katherine Dalton Renoir ('Moray Dalton') was born in Hammersmith, London in 1881, the only child of a Canadian father and English mother. The author wrote two well-received early novels, Olive in Italy (1909), and The Sword of Love (1920). However, her career in crime fiction did not begin until 1924, after which Moray Dalton published twenty-nine mysteries, the last in 1951. The majority of these feature her recurring sleuths, Scotland Yard inspector Hugh Collier and private inquiry agent Hermann Glide. Moray Dalton married Louis Jean Renoir in 1921, and the couple had a son a year later. The author lived on the south coast of England for the majority of her life following the marriage. She died in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1963.
Publisher: Dean Street Press

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