- Hardcover: 309 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (3 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340617128
- ISBN-13: 978-0340617120
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,008,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Taylor’s Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past’ (Independent )
‘Andrew Taylor is one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today’ (Spectator )
‘The people depicted here are real and believable and the drabness and genteel facade of Fifties England is skilfully brought to life. Taylor is, as always, adept at showing the reality beneath the surface’ (Sunday Telegraph )
‘How skilfully he recreates the atmosphere of the time through innuendo, attitude and detail . . .Taylor is the master of small lives writ large and he has carved a classic detective story’ (Frances Fyfield )
‘The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today’ (Val McDermid ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
‘Andrew Taylor is one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today’ (Spectator )
‘The people depicted here are real and believable and the drabness and genteel facade of Fifties England is skilfully brought to life. Taylor is, as always, adept at showing the reality beneath the surface’ (Sunday Telegraph )
‘How skilfully he recreates the atmosphere of the time through innuendo, attitude and detail . . .Taylor is the master of small lives writ large and he has carved a classic detective story’ (Frances Fyfield )
‘The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today’ (Val McDermid ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Independent
‘Taylor's Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past'
--This text refers to the
Paperback
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
3rd in Taylor's Lydmouth series of crime novels which build up a picture of a provincial society on the borders of England and Wales in the early 1950s - and also tell the story of a love affair. Wonderfully realised historical setting and profoundly satisfying characterisation AND a good crime story. For those who like their crime stories to be good novels as well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a book that took a lot of getting into but once I started I had to read to the end just to find out what had happened. It was very good with the a unique plot and the usual twists that keeps the reader in suspense.
Format:Paperback
Sends the reader back to a very different place in time, a time and place of changing values,quite different from today but with the same problems and temptations. A truly excellent read and indeed an escape from today`s gadgetry
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