Forget Me Not by Adrian Wright

Forget Me Not by Adrian Wright

‘Where do they go, the forgotten people? Where do they go?’  London, 1910: A mystery is begun in Lyons Corner House when innocent Ethel Braund meets blowsy singer Belle Elmore and mistakenly leaves with Belle’s handbag.  Fifty years later, a company of pensionable music-hall artistes are brought together on Cromer Pier for a last hurrah. Among them are the ageing duettists Grenville and Elsie, soubrette Dorothy Driscoll (known as ’The Doll With The Dimple’), Parliamentary Pete (who has recently had one leg amputated), an out-of-practice conjuror and his assistant Len and murderous Heron Makepeace. Topping the Bill is the formidable Hattie Prince, ‘England’s Greatest Male Impersonator’.  In a novel inhabited by a host of colourful characters, against a background of echoing music hall songs, the boy detectives Francis and Gordon Jones unravel a story of illusion, death and remembrance.

Adrian Wright is the acclaimed author of ‘Foreign Country: The life of L P Hartley’, ‘John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure’, ‘The Innumerable Dance: the life of William Alwyn’, and a collection of theatre pieces ‘No Laughing Matter’. He has written books on British musical theatre, and films. His fiction includes the novel ‘Maroon’, and two of his ‘Francis and Gordon Jones’ series. He lives in Norfolk.

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ISBN 13	9781838593131
ISBN 10	1838593136
Titre	Forget Me Not
Auteur	Adrian Wright
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Troubador Publishing
Année de publication	2020-03-28
Nombre de pages	256
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