- Hardcover: 231 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD; 1st U.S. Ed edition (21 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684196255
- ISBN-13: 978-0684196251
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,113,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club f minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and t victims of a fifty-year-old murder-suicide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life.
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Format:Paperback
Robert Barnard is the kind of auther that gets you hooked from the first page. All of his books, and I have read many of them,are the ones you cann't put down and this one is just as good. As many Robert Barnard books as I can get.A Hovering of Vultures
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A good whodunit
23 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
What better victim in a Robert Barnard mystery than a literary poseur? And what better place to find such character than a society set up in the honour of the dubiously talented authors Susannah and Joshua Sneddon?
These two authors toiled in the early years of the 20th century at their creative tasks in a remote cottage of Mikelwike, a small village in Yorkshire. Neither wrote masterpieces but Susanna's books were always more popular than her brother's. That's perhaps why Joshua one day killed his sister with an axe and then shot himself in the head.
Many years later, there is a renewed interest in the Sneddons, inspired by entrepreneur Gerald Suzman. He bought the Sneddon cottage, with plans to open a museum and to found a literary society called the Sneddon Fellowship. Sneddon enthusiasts from as far away as America, Norway and Japan gather at Suzman's invitation for the inauguration of the society during a Sneddon Weekend. DC Charlie Peace joins the party, intrigued by Suzman's unexpected literary interest in the Sneddond. Suzman's history shows a far greater penchant for wealth than literature, so he must have discovered a source of profit in the Fellowship. But where?
Charlie fears that an elderly American lady called Lettie Farraday may know too much for her own good. Lettie, who has returned to Mikelwike, the village of her birth, for the first time in fifty years, is the only conferee who personally knew the Sneddons. Too much knowledge may be dangerous...
These two authors toiled in the early years of the 20th century at their creative tasks in a remote cottage of Mikelwike, a small village in Yorkshire. Neither wrote masterpieces but Susanna's books were always more popular than her brother's. That's perhaps why Joshua one day killed his sister with an axe and then shot himself in the head.
Many years later, there is a renewed interest in the Sneddons, inspired by entrepreneur Gerald Suzman. He bought the Sneddon cottage, with plans to open a museum and to found a literary society called the Sneddon Fellowship. Sneddon enthusiasts from as far away as America, Norway and Japan gather at Suzman's invitation for the inauguration of the society during a Sneddon Weekend. DC Charlie Peace joins the party, intrigued by Suzman's unexpected literary interest in the Sneddond. Suzman's history shows a far greater penchant for wealth than literature, so he must have discovered a source of profit in the Fellowship. But where?
Charlie fears that an elderly American lady called Lettie Farraday may know too much for her own good. Lettie, who has returned to Mikelwike, the village of her birth, for the first time in fifty years, is the only conferee who personally knew the Sneddons. Too much knowledge may be dangerous...
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Hovering of Vultures
26 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
This is one of Barnard's best. After you have long finished the book, you can't get the sound of beating and flapping wings out of your head.
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