Death at Knytte
By: Jean Rowden
Edition: [US & CA only version].
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780719812392; 9780719812385; 9781306119337; 9780719812378; 9780719809828
Subjects: Jewel thieves; Fiction; Murder; Criminal investigation; FICTION; Crime; Mystery & Detective; General
Description: Nobody believes Lord Pickhurst's new young wife is as demure and devoted as she seems, but where in the wilds of the West Country would she find a suitable paramor? Fortunately for Lady Lucille, a spate of jewel robberies gives the gossips something else to talk about. It's not so lucky for Sergeant Beddowes, and he's soon up to his neck in trouble; the bucolic backwater turns out to be as dangerous as his usual haunts in the stews of the London underworld. It with a simple case of robbery, but Beddowes finds himself drawn into the investigation of a brutal murder. If he can't solve the riddle of how the elderly Lord Pickhurst died, an innocent man will go to the gallows, while the guilty get away scot free.