Unhappy returns
By: Elizabeth Lemarchand
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Dales
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781842625859
Subjects: Gregory Toye (Fictitious character); Tom Pollard (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: A sleepy English village is scandalised when the eccentric housekeeper at the vicarage publicly announces the disappearance of a priceless medieval chalice. No one admits to having ever seen the chalice, yet the very next day the old woman is found brutally murdered. Superintendent Pollard and Inspector Toye of Scotland Yard untangle a web of suspicion and deceit, and unearth the remnants of long-ago violence, as they reveal the dark secrets of Abercombe.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1977.