england In 1920, Is A Land Fit For Heros. So, Why Is One Of Those Heroes Found Dead In A Dingy London Hotel? Inspector Lestrade Is Uo To The Task Of Solving The Case.
publishers Weekly at The Start Of This 10th Volume In The Lestrade Mystery Series, A Reporter Visiting Scotland Yard Notices A Sepia Photo Of An Assistant Police Commissioner, Major Sir E.f. Wodehouse, Whose Vexed Expression Seems To Deny Knowledge Of Anyone Called Jeeves Or Wooster. It's Not Only From This That One Might Conclude That Trow Is Trying To Follow As Much In The Tradition Of The Great English Humorist As He Is In The Footsteps Of Conan Doyle. In 1920, The Murder Of His Daughter Emma's Fianc , A Wwi Aviator, Draws Inspector Sholto Lestrade Out Of Retirement. The Body Count Quickly Mounts. Lestrade And Emma Go Underground To Investigate The Killings Of A Female Cousin Of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, A Belgian Diplomat, A Russian Sailor And A Bedouin Who's Found Dead In Full Desert Dress On Hampstead Heath. Gags, Snickering Asides And Allusive In-jokes Abound, While Various Celebrities Of The Day--from Shaw To Irish Nationalist Michael Collins--rush In And Out Of The Action. The Problem Is That These Characters, Both Imaginary And Historical, Are Mere Cartoon Figures. Unlike P.g. Wodehouse And Doyle, Trow Is Too Busy Cracking Jokes To Invest His Characters With Any Real Humanity, And Emma's Fianc 's Death And Her Later Kidnapping Scarcely Register As Tragedies. The Result Is Burlesque On The Order Of Benny Hill. (apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

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Trow, M. J.

Regnery Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network

Regnery Publishing

Gateway/Regnery

LifeLine Press

A Gateway mystery, Lestrade mystery series ;, v. 10, Washington, DC, Lanham, MD, District of Columbia, 2000

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, PS, 2000

England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel? And why does his war record show that he has been missing, presumed killed in action, for three years?" "The deceased is none other than the fiance of Superintendent Lestrade's daughter. When her tears are dry, she sets out on a quest to find his murderer." "With Sholto Lestrade, one murder has a habit of leading to another, and this time is no exception: a second body turns up, linked to the first. How can a woman killed in an air raid in 1917 be found with a bullet through her head three years later?" "Lestrade and his daughter go undercover in Britain's War Office, in the Foreign Office, at a film studio, and at Scotland Yard itself. When a succession of foreigners is murdered with the same tell-tale weapon, it begs the question, has World War II begun already? Is this the work of the Germans? The Communists? The Black and Tans?" "Despite the international intrigue that surrounds these murders, however, the case takes on a decidedly British cast when Lestrade's daughter is kidnapped and signs point to the nation's own internal security service, MI5.

"England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. The deceased is none other than the fiancé of Superintendent Lestrade's daughter. When her tears are dry, she sets out on a quest to find his murderer."--Jacket

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