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The Property of Lies: A 1930s' historical mystery (A Herbert Reardon Mystery)
The Property of Lies A 1930s' historical mystery - A Herbert Reardon Mystery Author:Marjorie Eccles DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls? boarding school. — 1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher... more », Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who ? or what ? she claimed to be. Who was she really ? and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth?
Then a pupil goes missing ? and the case takes a disturbing new twist ?« less
ISBN-13: 9780727887207 ISBN-10: 0727887203 Publication Date: 9/1/2017 Pages:240 Edition:First World Publicat Rating: