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The Murders near Mapleton: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery

The Murders near Mapleton: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery - Paperback

by Brian Flynn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Brian FlynnPublish date:2019-10-07Pages:202
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781913054410ISBN-10:1913054411UPC:9781913054410Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:TraditionalSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCKGS4BFM0

"This is not suicide, gentlemen. This is murder Cold-blooded murder The sooner we get the police here and find Sir Eustace Vernon, the better "

Christmas Eve at Vernon House is in full swing. Sir Eustace's nearest and dearest, and the great and the good of Mapleton, are all there. But the season of comfort and joy doesn't run true to form. Before the night is out, Sir Eustace has disappeared and his butler, Purvis, lies dead, poisoned, with a threatening message in his pocket. Or is it her pocket?

That same evening, Police Commissioner Sir Austin Kemble and investigator Anthony Bathurst are out for a drive. They come across an abandoned car at a railway crossing, and find a body - Sir Eustace Vernon, plus two extraordinary additions. One, a bullet hole in the back of his head. Two, a red bon-bon in his pocket with a threatening message attached.

The Murders near Mapleton was originally published in 1929. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781913054410ISBN-10:1913054411UPC:9781913054410Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:TraditionalSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCKGS4BFM0
Flynn, Brian: - Brian Flynn was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls in the evenings, and acting in his spare time. It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time mediocre in the extreme, he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author's wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery. The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 54 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst.
Publisher: Dean Street Press

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