After the mourning
By: Barbara Nadel
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781846325892
Subjects: Large type books; Undertakers and undertaking; Fiction; Romanies; Crimes against; Murder; Investigation
Description: It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the 'Blessed Virgin'. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German gypsy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy. Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold blooded murder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession ...
Notes: Originally published: London : Headline Review, 2006.