The Cavalier Case
A Jemima Shore Mystery
$37.77
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2015
Summary
As he turned … he had the extraordinary impression of a man in full armour rearing up in front of him … It was the last thing he saw, before he hurtled downwards to a certain death
An untimely death and the reappearance of a ghost lead television reporter Jemima Shore into a mysterious case of sex, violence and the supernatural.
When the butler plummets from the battlements of Lackland Court, it becomes clear that the ghost of the legendary Civil War poet and soldier, Decimus …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780228563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780228562 |
| Author: | Antonia Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Jemima Shore |
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Full of satirical digs at contemporary manners, it’s unbeatable for pure escapism - a thoroughly entertaining whodunit– EVENING STANDARD
The novel is enormous fun and the who-did-it is satisfyingly resolved. Antonia Fraser’s best so far - SPECTATOR
Full of satirical digs at contemporary manners, it’s unbeatable for pure escapism - a thoroughly entertaining whodunit - EVENING STANDARDAbout The Author
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles II, The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 and The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up in 2015. She lives in London.
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