Death Under Sail - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140105379 ISBN 13: 9780140105377

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

Roger Mills is murdered during a boat party. Finbow, a man of sharp eye and keen understanding of human behaviour, manages to unravel the strands of friendship and distrust which enmeshed Mills and the six guests aboard his yacht.

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Review:

?The complications are extremely ingenious and the excitement is kept up to the end . . .Even the most jaded detective-story reader will find a thrill and the most fastidious will find wit and feeling?--The Observer

'The complications are extremely ingenious and the excitement is kept up to the end . . .Even the most jaded detective-story reader will find a thrill and the most fastidious will find wit and feeling', The Observer, The Observer--The Observer

A fascinating story.--Sunday Times

Stimulating and satisfying.--The Times Literary Supplement

The complications are extremely ingenious and the excitement is kept up to the end . . .Even the most jaded detective-story reader will find a thrill and the most fastidious will find wit and feeling.--The Observer

About the Author:

C.P. Snow was born in Leicester, on 15 October 1905. He was educated from age 11 at Alderman Newton's School for boys where he excelled in most subjects, enjoying a reputation for an astounding memory. In 1923 he gained an external scholarship in science at London University, whilst working as a laboratory assistant at Newton's to gain the necessary practical experience, because Leicester University, as it was to become, had no chemistry or physics departments at that time. Having achieved a first class degree, followed by a Master of Science he won a studentship in 1928 which he used to research at the famous Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Snow went on to become a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1930 where he also served as a tutor, but his position became increasingly titular as he branched into other areas of activity. In 1934, he began to publish scientific articles in Nature, and then The Spectator before becoming editor of the journal Discovery in 1937. However, he was also writing fiction during this period and in 1940 'Strangers and Brothers' was published. This was the first of eleven novels in the series and was later renamed 'George Passant' when 'Strangers and Brothers' was used to denote the series itself. Discovery became a casualty of the war, closing in 1940. However, by this time Snow was already involved with the Royal Society, who had organised a group to specifically use British scientific talent operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour. He served as the Ministry's technical director from 1940 to 1944. After the war, Snow became a civil service commissioner responsible for recruiting scientists to work for the government. He also returned to writing, continuing the Strangers and Brothers series of novels. 'The Light and the Dark' was published in 1947, followed by 'Time of Hope' in 1949, and perhaps the most famous and popular of them all, 'The Masters', in 1951. He planned to finish the cycle within five years, but the final novel 'Last Things' wasn't published until 1970. He married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950 and they had one son, Philip, in 1952. Snow was knighted in 1957 and became a life peer in 1964, taking the title Baron Snow of the City Leicester. He also joined Harold Wilson's first government as Parliamentary Secretary to the new Minister of Technology. When the department ceased to exist in 1966 he became a vociferous back-bencher in the House of Lords. After finishing the Strang

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140105379
• ISBN 13: 9780140105377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224