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Poisoned Pen Press
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
Featuring: Oliver Swithin
250 pages ISBN: 1464202400 EAN: 9781464202407 Hardcover
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Mystery
Sherlock Holmes once claimed that “the lowest and vilest
alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of
sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.""
And Oliver Swithin, reluctant guest in an English village,
is about to find out that it's true. Coaxed out of his clothes and into a midnight streak by his
girlfriend, Oliver’s amorous intentions are thwarted by the
discovery of a dead body dangling from the village’s ancient
gibbet. When it appears that the famous victim was driven to
suicide by blackmail, Oliver resolves to find the
blackmailer. And to do so, he needs to discover the dead
man’s secret. But in the twenty-first century, when sins that would once
have been ripe for shaming are now a cause for hiring a
publicist, what foul deeds of the past will people still pay
to keep hidden? Is the carefully cut out page from a
Shakespeare play, with its reference to a ""private plot,""
really a clue? Why did somebody fill in the victim's grave
before his funeral? And what does any of this have to do with the memoir writers
of the Vicar's reading group, the five unmarried Bennett
sisters, the mysterious monk known only as ""The Vampire of
Synne,"" the case of the two Shakespeares, and the married
couple who are never seen in the same room at the same time?
Will there be yet another appearance by Underwood Tooth, the
world's leading expert on being ignored? Oliver discovers that the death was no suicide. But that's
nothing compared with the next revelation, which turns the
entire investigation upside down and puts Oliver's own life
in peril.
Oliver discovers that the death was no suicide. But that's
nothing compared with the next revelation, which turns the
entire investigation upside down and puts Oliver's own life
in peril.
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