Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Lovesey, Peter |
| Publisher: | Soho Crime |
| Date: | 6/1/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Lovesey’s best yet.”
—H.R.F. Keating, The Times
Brighton,1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through atelescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into acompelling drama for his own amusement. A keen student of human nature,Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family—theProtheros, especially the beautiful Zena Prothero, whose husband appearsto take her for granted. Moscrop gradually moves into the circle of theProthero family, only to become involved in a sensational murder. Allof Brighton is horrified by the gruesome crime, and the local policeseek the help of Scotland Yard’s Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray,who soon find themselves challenged by the strangest case of theircareers, one as mystifying as it is macabre.
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