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Last Rights (Hardcover)

by Barbara Nadel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (6 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755321359
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755321353
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 663,393 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Francis H is an undertaker in the London Borough of West Ham in the 1940s. The Second World War is in full swing and the Borough is being pounded on a nightly basis by the German Luftwaffe. Francis H is a World War 1 veteran so he also has to deal with the continuing fears and delusions that still haunt him from the trenches of Flanders. One night, in the middle of a raid, Francis meets what appears to be a madman running across the rubble screaming about being stabbed. But Francis can see no sign of blood on the man, so he passes him by. However, two days later the man's body turns up at Francis' parlour. So begins a frightening sequence of events that has Francis H pitted against violent thugs, an almost impenetrable network of secrets and his own fragile sanity.


About the Author

Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel is now a public relations officer for rethink severe mental illness's Good Companions Project. Her previous job was a mental health advocate in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in both schools and colleges. Born in the East End of London, she now lives in Essex and has been a regular visitor to Turkey for over twenty years.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A total change of style for Nadel - but a pleasing one nevertheless!, 7 Nov 2007
By E. Heckingbottom "elaineheck143" (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Rights (Paperback)
I found this book intriguing from beginning to end.

As thoroughly researched as any of her Ikman books, this one is based in the London area - in a funeral home - during the 2nd World War.

The main character, Francis, is the Funeral Director, who is still suffering from shell shock from the previous war. As a result, he is unable to cope with Air raid shelters; and so spends the air-raid wandering...which eventually leads to a murder mystery when he encounters a man who claims to have been stabbed. in spite of their being no blood, 2 days later the man appears in the funeral parlour - stone dead - and Francis cannot let it drop. He has to find out who did it, and why!

The characters are all well drawn and believable in this easy-to-read book. I love the way Nadel pulls characters from so many different strands of London life - from Catholics to Jews; from funeral directors to police to 'working girls'; almost all sympathetically presented.

Read it and enjoy. I'm now waiting for the third in the series - for a third there surely has to be!
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars World War II, an undertaker and a murder..., 26 Jan 2006
By Mrs Maureen Cate (Wollaston, Northamptonshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Rights (Paperback)
This was the first Barbara Nadel book I have read and I will be searching for more immediately!
It is 1940 and London is suffering nightly bombardments by enemy bombs.An undertaker in West Ham - Francis Hancock - is so traumatised by his WWI experiences in the trenches that he can't seek the relative safety of the Anderson shelter and he is compelled to run through the empty streets whilst London explodes around him. One night he encounters a man who seems like him - disoriented and screaming. Another shell-shocked veteran? But this man says he has been stabbed...two days later he arrives in Francis's funeral parlour. Dead.
So starts this intriguing and absorbing story that takes us through the wartime streets of East London and introduces us to the characters that abounded in the Jewish and Gentile communities, the ordinary people, the thugs, the hookers - good and bad. A great read from beginning to end - highly recommended
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than Istanbul, 27 Feb 2006
By Mr. Stephen Edwards "se1955" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I got rather fed up with Inspector Ikmen, and his increasingly unlikely plots, so I wasn't expecting too much of Barbara Nadel's Last Rights, set in wartime London. I was wrong. This is a tight, disciplined and very interesting novel. Francis Hancock is a well-drawn character and a sympathetic hero. We see a side of the Battle of Britain which is usually conveniently forgotten - low life looters, black marketeers and draft dodgers. The plot is pretty good, and keeps the reader involved to the slightly staged denouement.
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