Author

Publication

2014 - Isis, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]

Description

'The County Guides' are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England. The books are an odyssey through England and its history. In each county, the protagonists - Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley - solve a murder. This book is set in Norfolk.

Description

It is 1937 and Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where "intelligence is essential", he applies. Thus begins Sefton's association with the eccentric Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect. Morley plans to write a series of guides to the counties of England and, together with Morley's daughter, Miriam, they begin their tour in Norfolk. But when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church's bellrope, they find themselves drawn into a rather more fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life, or was it murder?

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Isis large print
  • Country Guides to Murder -- bk. 1

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Other Editions

  • The Norfolk mysteryIsis2014-01-01

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