Whoever Has the Heart - Softcover

Melville, Jennie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786202076 ISBN 13: 9780786202072

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Melville, Jennie

About this title

About the Author:

Jennie Melville, a pseudonym for Gwendoline Butler, was born and brought up in south London, and was one of the most universally praised of English mystery authors. She wrote over fifty novels under both names. Educated at Haberdashers, she read history at Oxford, and later married Dr Lionel Butler, Principal of Royal Holloway College. She had one daughter, who survives her. Gwendoline Butler's crime novels are hugely popular in both Britain and the United States, and her many awards included the Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger. She was also selected as being one of the top two hundred crime writers in the world by The Times.

From Kirkus Reviews:

British policewoman Charmian Daniels has reached a high rank in her Windsor-based unit (Windsor Red, 1988, etc.). Wealthy Humphrey Kent wants to marry her, but Charmian chooses to distance herself with the purchase of an old house in nearby Brideswell. It was owned by the late Lady Beatrice Armitage, an aunt of Charmian's close friend Mary Erskine. When Chloe Devon, secretary to Mary's wealthy suitor Billy Damiani, disappears one night from Brideswell's main street--her dismembered body parts later turning up in several places--Charmian finds herself unofficially investigating the murder. Officially in the hands of attractive Chief Superintendent Clive Barney, the case is soon complicated by the murder of longtime resident Thomas Dryden, found by Charmian mutilated and dying in the village churchyard. Secrets past and present abound in Brideswell, one of them in the house next to Charmian's, but it's in an unlikely corner that she finds the key to the puzzle. Several psychics wander in and out of a plot spun in cryptic prose that tends to flatten suspense, A mildly engrossing midlevel entry in this series of offbeat procedurals. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786202076
• ISBN 13: 9780786202072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 329