The Shortest Journey [electronic resource]
Holt, Hazel2010
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A "hugely entertaining" English village mystery with "diverting, unexpected twists" (Booklist). Mrs. Edith Rossiter is a rich matron who also has a wealth of greedy relatives—a cold-blooded daughter, a wastrel son, and a desperate sister. But because she is in excellent health, none of them can hope to inherit anytime soon . . . So when Edith vanishes from Taviscombe's finest nursing home, the police suspect the worst. Mrs. Rossiter was a close friend of Mrs. Sheila Malory, who as usual applies her skills as an amateur detective to delve into the lives of the missing woman and her hopeful heirs. Was Edith addicted to sleeping pills? What did the mysterious couple seen in Edith's company want from her? The truth will be stranger and more startling than even Mrs. Malory could have possibly imagined. "A wonderful heroine." —St. Petersburg Times "Anglophiles will delight in the authentically British Mrs. Malory." —Booklist
Main title:
The Shortest Journey [electronic resource] / Hazel Holt
Author:
Holt, Hazel, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Epicenter Press, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Mrs. Malory Mystery
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Hazel Holt originated from Birmingham, England, where she attended King Edward VI High School for Girls. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties and is a leading crime novelist. She is best known for her Mrs. Malory mysteries. Her son is the novelist Tom Holt.
ISBN:
9781603810579
Language:
English
BRN:
2794879
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