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The Wintringham mystery / Anthony Berkeley ; with an introduction by Tony Medawar.
Van Pelt Library PR6005.O855 W56 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berkeley, Anthony, 1893-1971, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household employees--England--Fiction.
- Household employees.
- Country homes--England--Fiction.
- Country homes.
- Disappeared persons--Fiction.
- Disappeared persons.
- Criminal investigation--Fiction.
- Criminal investigation.
- Berkshire (England)--Fiction.
- Berkshire (England).
- England.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 236 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Cicely disappears.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Collins Crime Club, 2021.
- Summary:
- Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, takes a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the decaying country residence of Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house party, where her bombastic nephew decides that an after-dinner šance would be more entertaining than bridge. The lights go out and Cicely disappears.
- Notes:
- "Classic British Crime" -- Book jacket.
- "First published in Great Britain as Cicely Disappears by A. Monmouth Platts by John Long Ltd 1927" -- Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780008470104
- 0008470103
- 9780008470081
- 0008470081
- OCLC:
- 1263786305
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