Empty Vessels by Marina Pascoe

Empty Vessels by Marina Pascoe

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A Bartlett & Boase murder mystery set in 1920s Cornwall, England.

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Empty Vessels by Marina Pascoe

The first installment in the Bartlett and Boase Mysteries, a detective series set on the beautiful English Riviera during the 1920s. For fans of Agatha Christie and Golden Age crime fiction. 1921, Falmouth. Inspector George Bartlett is investigating the disappearance of a young girl, and events take a turn for the worse when a woman is found dead, badly mutilated, on a local beach. Bartlett and his assistant, Constable Archibald Boase, soon realise the woman was a local prostitute, Ivy Williams. The murder investigation leads the men to the wealthy inhabitants of Penvale Manor House A web of illegitimacy, inheritances, and secrecy is uncovered, and soon the hangman's noose is swinging precariously over one of the suspects - but have they got the right person?

Marina Pascoe is a Falmothian with a lifelong interest in crime and history, having read her first Agatha Christie at the age of ten and becoming hooked!Having written several books about the history of her home county, and more recently gaining a Masters degree in Regional Histories, marina Pascoe had, for many years, hoped to see an historical murder mystery set against the backdrop of her home town, Falmouth. Having waited patiently, she decided to write a series of her own, The Bartlett and Boase Mysteries.

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ISBN 13 9781783755660
ISBN 10 1783755660
Title Empty Vessels
Author Marina Pascoe
Series The Bartlett And Boase Mysteries
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Year published 2014-03-05
Number of pages 250
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.