As if by magic
By: Dolores Gordon-Smith
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780753185360; 9780753185377
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; World War, 1914-1918; English Novelists; Jack Haldean (Fictitious character); Fiction; Veterans
Description: "George Lassiter is ill, destitute and desperate. Desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger's house for warmth, food and shelter. And there, on that bitterly cold night in 1922, he witnesses a murder, the murder of a beautiful girl. But what's happened to the body? When the police search the house the next day they find nothing. The corpse has vanished, as if by magic. 'It was a hallucination born of delirium', say the police, and reluctantly George is forced to agree. Even his friend and rescuer, Jack Haldean believes it was a nightmare - but the consequences of that nightmare will plunge George into a tangle of lies and obsession, as George hunts for his inheritance and Jack hunts for a ruthless killer."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Constable, 2009.