LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mary fitt

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  • The Banquet Ceases
    Mary Fitt
    ’Call Bernard! I’ll see him-and you-in hell first!’It is 1947 and a sumptuous banquet at Fairfield Manor is underway to celebrate Bernard Smith-William’s recovery from a serious illness. Among the guests are Bernard’s childhood friend Rupert Lavering and his wife Louise. A war veteran and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Rupert has had trouble adjusting to peacetime, and was gi...
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    17,27 €

  • Sweet Poison
    Mary Fitt
    ’Augustus knows he is inconveniencing a great many people, and he is enjoying this. He will not change his mind.’Augustus Gale was a man in love-with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. So great was his dedication to the memory of playwright Joan Farmer that Augustus bought her ancestral home, steeped himself in the local history, and attempted to enforce a ...
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  • Clues to Christabel
    Mary Fitt
    ’It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.’When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her ongoing use; the rest of the house remains in the hands of her mother, grandmother and siblings. Christabel made it known that Marc...
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    19,73 €

  • Love From Elizabeth
    Mary Fitt
    My great-aunt Liza is an old she-devil... but she’s had a devilish raw deal.’Lady Elizabeth Carn has ruled Tristowell Castle with an iron fist for fifty years. On the eve of her adored adopted daughter Augusta’s twenty-first birthday, far-flung family return to the castle, dredging up past resentments and conflicts. The next morning, Elizabeth is discovered strangled at her wri...
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  • The Night-Watchman’s Friend
    Mary Fitt
    ’I shouldn’t have come back! They’ll never give up! There’s too much to lose!’George Pollicott and Henry Rowles live a solitary and meagre existence in a hut along the towering Sea Wall of the Welsh Lowlands. On a foggy night twenty years before, night-watchman Pollicott had found Rowles near death and nursed him back to health.   Henry Rowles, an obviously educated man, shuns ...
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    19,80 €

  • Three Sisters Flew Home
    Mary Fitt / TBD
    'You must admit I make a good murderer. Nobody thinks of me.' Not every woman can collect her dethroned lovers and their wives into one room, but then Claribel was not ’every woman’. Things happened at her parties and so one swallowed the latest baits and joined all the other poor fish. But having given her party, having collected her bevy of expectant friends, having displayed...
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    21,18 €

  • Death and the Pleasant Voices
    Mary Fitt / TBD
    All these people who thought themselves securely in possession are now going to be dependent on the caprice of this young man.’During a blinding rainstorm, Jake Seaborne takes a wrong turn and arrives at Ullstone Hall, where is he is initially mistaken for ’Hugo’, the new heir to the family estate. It seems Hugo is the offspring of the late Mr Ullstone’s first marriage in India...
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    19,57 €

  • Requiem for Robert
    Mary Fitt / TBD
    ’When a man has three separate notices by three different women inserted in the local paper, and he’s my own namesake besides, I feel I owe him something.’Sequential death notices appear for Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife, one by his daughter. This odd approach draws the attention of Superintendent Mallett and his friend Dr. Fitzbrown. The inquest ...
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  • Death and Mary Dazill
    Mary Fitt / TBD
    ’Is it wise to evoke these memories-to raise these ghosts-after all these years?’After attending a burial in an old country churchyard, Superintendent Mallett and his friends are struck by the sight of two elderly ladies, regally dressed in black and accompanied by their uniformed chauffeur, placing an elaborate wreath on the graveyard’s most imposing monument. The vicar confir...
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    20,03 €

  • Death on Herons’ Mere
    Mary Fitt / TBD
    Mr Gabb, your son did not commit suicide. He was murdered.’Simon Gabb has everything - or so it seems: a beautiful house on a large estate, a flourishing business and two sons, both evidently endowed with the capacity to carry on the family firm. One is brilliant and inventive, the other dependable and efficient. And yet something is manifestly wrong. A secret invention, on whi...
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    20,78 €