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Publication
Constable (2007), Hardcover, 256 pages
Description
For Verity Browne's suspected tuberculosis, the only cure in 1938 is rest & a healthy diet. And so Lord Edward Corinth books her into a friend's private clinic in Henley-upon-Thames. Here Edward can keep an eye on Verity while he investigates the sadistic murder of one Eric Silver, a London dentist whose death has a Henley connection.
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Original publication date
2007-11-01
Physical description
256 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
1845293185 / 9781845293185
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Lord Edward Corinth's fiance, Verity Browne, returns from Prague with suspected tuberculosis. The only cure for TB in 1938 is rest and a healthy diet so she goes to a private clinic in Henley-on- Thames run by a Cambridge friend of Edward's. Meanwhile, Edward investigates a series of murders with a Henley connection. His dentist, Eric Silver, has been murdered - shortly after sharing with Edward, his final patient, his suspicions about the deaths of three of his elderly patients. Silver had identified an entomological connection between the deaths. General Lowther had had a heart attack drinking a wine called Clos des Mouches, Hermione Totteridge, a well-known gardener, had been poisoned by the new insecticide with which she had been experimenting, and James Herold had been stung to death by his bees.Edward goes to stay with his old friend Harry Makin inherited a title and a property in Henley. His investigation comes to a thrilling climax during what many believe will be the last Henley Royal Regatta before a new European war. Both Edward and Verity face death from someone, or something, wicked.