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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.
Contributor:
Medawar, Tony, writer of introduction.
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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