Murder in Piccadilly / by Charles Kingston ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingston, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Edwards, Martin, 1955- Author of introduction, etc.

Series:

British Library crime classics.

British Library crime classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

viii, 305 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edtion.

First US trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2015.

Summary:

When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho, he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly--and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene, he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs, a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive for murder. This good-natured vintage mystery novel is now republished for the first time since the 1930s.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Ward, Lock & Co., 1936.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781464203732

1464203733

OCLC:

900794319