The Emperor's Snuff-Box

The Emperor's Snuff-Box

Paperback Published on: 19/12/2013
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Synopsis

The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite.

By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has attempted to force his unwelcome attentions on her. How can Eve tell the police what she saw when disclosing whom she was with might jeopardise her own impending marriage?

Suspicion falls on casual thieves, on the family and on various acquaintances, but the complicated 'locked-room' case is eventually solved by Dr Dermot Kinross, a detective who becomes emotionally involved ...

  • Publisher: The Murder Room
  • ISBN: 9781471905278
  • Number of pages: 184
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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In many ways, The Emperor's Snuff-Box is the perfect novel to gauge how interested you are in the works of John Dickson Carr: it's readily available (which... READ MORE
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