num_pages: 183
description: On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family–George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles–were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life.
language: English
title: A Judgement In Stone
titlecomplete: A Judgement In Stone
characters: George Coverdale, Norman Smith, Jacqueline Coverdale, Melinda Coverdale, Eunice Parchman, Joan Smith, Giles Mont
genres: Crime, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Contemporary, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 7092
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Bantam Books