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Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1992, c1964.
Description
One ordinary Thursday, just before teatime, Annet goes out to mail a letter and doesn't return. A young schoolmaster saw her disappear over the Hollowmount--a nearby hill local legends claim to be inhabited by witches.
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LibraryThing member JonRob
This is one of Ms. Peters' modern-day mysteries, involving the disappearance of the beautiful young Annet Beck on the mysterious Hallowmount (based, I suspect, on the Stiperstones). When she reappears after five days, she insists that she's only been gone for a couple of hours. Both George and
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Dominic Felse (at this stage still in the sixth form) feature, together with the impressionable young teacher Tom Kenyon. It transpires that Annet has accidentally become involved with a rather sordid murder, but she continues to refuse to speak. There's a rather implausibly melodramatic conclusion (back on the Hallowmount). Not one of her best, in my view, but still worth reading once. Show Less
LibraryThing member ffortsa
A mystery in modern day (1964) Wales by the author of the Brother Cadfael series, this story is part village mystery and part police procedural. An easy read, and a reasonably disguised villain.
LibraryThing member BonnieJune54
I liked it. Ellis Peters seemed to be fantasizing a bit about what it's like to have looks that have all the men falling in love with you. Annet doesn't fit any pretty girl stereotype.
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Original publication date
1964
Physical description
210 p.; 24 inches
ISBN
0816153159 / 9780816153152