The Luck of the Vails - Softcover

Benson, E. F.

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701207221 ISBN 13: 9780701207229

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1986

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On the eve of his twenty-first birthday, Harry Vail, twelfth baronet, discovers the chalice hidden in soft leather folds up in the attic. Little can he imagine, as he unwraps this unexpected gift, the birthday curse he is about to bring down upon his head. Set amid the rolling Wiltshire dales and the clattering, gaslit streets of London, The Luck of the Vails gradually reveals a long, bitter history of corruption and violence amongst the old aristocracy. It is a vintage crime story. E. F. Benson (1867 - 1940) wrote almost 100 books, including Paying Guests and the 'Mapp and Lucia' novels. Although he is most famous for his comedies, he was also a grand teller of evil tales - it ran in the family: his farther , the Archbishop of Canterbury, inspired Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

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"A master of the form" (New York Times)

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READ ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE? TRY A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Downton Abbey meets The Woman in Black - the author of Mapp and Lucia proves himself a master of murder mystery and country-house crime.

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