Scent Of Death - Softcover

Emma Page

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373260121 ISBN 13: 9780373260126

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1989

Synopsis

Helen Mowbray, a woman missing for several years, has a sister who cannot receive an inheritance unless Helen turns up, a situation that leads two detectives investigating the case into a deadly mystery

About this title

About the Author:

Emma Page first began writing as a hobby, and after a number of her poems had been accepted by the BBC and her short stories began appearing in weekly magazines, she took to writing radio plays and crime novels. She was first published in the Crime Club, which later become Collins Crime. An English graduate from Oxford, Emma Page taught in every kind of educational establishment the UK and abroad before she started writing full-time.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this efficiently plotted novel, Detectives Lambert and Kelsey investigate the murders of Helen and Joanne Mowbray, sisters whose bodies are discovered near Cannonbridge, an English industrial town. They trace Helen's movements after her arrival in Cannonbridge some years earlier, and in doing so ruffle local feathers. Suspicion is cast on several county bigwigs, among them: J. Preston Fletcher, a businessman with national political aspirations, and David Hinckley, a designer who had an affair with Helen. Despite Page's generally quiet narrative style, the novel is darkly atmospheric and generates substantial tension. Her depiction of small-city English life is naturalistic, and its caustic quality provides a spice that compensates for what might otherwise be major deficiencies: a shortage of human warmth and humor.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0373260121
• ISBN 13: 9780373260126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218