Title: Death on a Quiet Day
First published: June 1957
Description: Student David Henchman decides to spend a quiet day in the country to escape from his boisterous classmate tormentors but gets more than he bargains for when he comes across a man with a bullet hole in his head. So begins a tale of frenzied pursuit featuring a disappearing corpse, a mad race from a killer on the moors, a panicky girl, a flight by automobile, and an ivy-covered tower that contains the secret of death on a quiet day.
Subjects: Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Sir Appleby, John (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Appleby, john, sir (fictitious character), fiction, English Spy stories, Fiction, thrillers, general
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: 1950s