The Norwich victims
By: Francis Beeding
Series: An Inspector Martin mystery; Crime classics; Arcturus crime classics
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781782124429
Copyright date: 1931
Subjects: Lottery winners; Fiction; Swindlers and swindling; Gagnants à la loterie; Romans, nouvelles
Description: Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. A middle-aged schoolteacher wins the French lottery and looks around for somewhere safe to invest her prize. Unfortunately for her she decides to consult the unscrupulous John Throgmorton, and he seizes a once in a lifetime opportunity, murdering the unsuspecting Miss Haslett and sending his secretary and partner in crime, Hermione Taylor, to Paris to collect the money. Throgmorton's devious plan is executed to perfection, and it seems that nothing can go wrong. But then he receives an unexpected visitor.