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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half-brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide. The grieving relatives gather together to discuss the fate of Barcombe Hall, when another shocking death occurs. Inspector Rutledge, who is still shell-shocked from his experiences in the Great War, is sent from Scotland Yard to investigate. Rutledge is soon convinced that the answers to this...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper pbk. [ed.].
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1919, and the 'War to End All Wars' has been won. But there is no peace for Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France shell-shocked and tormented by the ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing an order. Escaping into his work to save his sanity, Rutledge investigates the murder of a popular colonel in Warwickshire and his alleged killer, a decorated war hero and close friend...