CREAM TEAS! SCHOOL DINNERS! SATANIC SURFERS!Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … DEATH IN DEVON.CREAM TEAS! SCHOOL DINNERS! SATANIC SURFERS!Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … DEATH IN DEVON.Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter Miriam and his assistant Stephen Sefton pack up the Lagonda for a trip to the English Riviera.Morley has been invited to give the Founder’s Day speech at All Souls School in Rousdon. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it – murder?Join Morley, Sefton and Miram on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England.‘Much recommended for a frolicsome read’ Country Life Magazine‘The magnificent Morley is very good company, and Sansom has a lovely way with a mind-bending puzzle … superbly entertaining’ The TimesPraise for ‘The Norfolk Mystery’:‘A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery … Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail‘A brilliant first outing that leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour’ Evening StandardIan Sansom writes for the ‘Guardian’ and the ‘London Review of Books’. He is the author of ten books including, ‘Paper: An Elegy’, ‘Mr Dixon Disappears’, ‘The delegates Choice’ and ‘The Bad Book Affair’, some of the instalments of The Mobile Library series. He lives in Northern Ireland.• An absolute must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, ‘The County Guides to Murder’ brings to life a bygone age of pre-war glamour, quaint English villages and old-fashioned murder!• Second in the series, ‘The Devon Mystery’ can build off the success of ‘The Norfolk Mystery’.• ‘Put together with a charm that is teasingly precious … Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morely promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail• Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, the first in the series, ‘The Norfolk Mystery’ was a very popular Radio 4 Book at Bedtime last year.• ‘The Devon Mystery’ features real locations and will be illustrated with guide book-style imagery throughout.Competition: Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes; Love Lies Bleeding (A Gervase Fen Mystery); An Englishman'S Guide To Infidelity; Poirot Investigates (Poirot) (Hercule Poirot Series Book 3). Agatha Christie;James Runcie; Arthur Conan Doyle; Edmund Crispin; Stuart Campbell;
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