The Death Of Kings

Author: Rennie Airth

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9781509817337
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Pan Books
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  • : October 2017
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : October 2017
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  • : Rennie Airth
  • : Inspector Madden series
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781509817337
9781509817337

Description

From the critically acclaimed author, Rennie Airth, comes the fifth John Madden mystery, The Death of Kings. I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake's body in August 1938 . . . Since the piece could not have been stolen by the man who was hanged for Miss Blake's murder, the question arises: who else could have taken it? And why? 1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of Portia Blake, an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time - the accused vagrant gave a written confession and was sentenced to the gallows - but in the police's haste to close the inquiry, the necklace was never recovered. Until now. Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter's worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy . . .

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The fifth novel in Rennie Airth's outstanding Inspector Madden series set in post-war Britain.

Author description

Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter, The Reckoning, and now The Death of Kings.