Cook, David Missing Persons ISBN 13: 9780001052581

Missing Persons

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The first Hetty Wainthropp novel, wherein Hetty begins her new career as a detective. Missing Persons is both comic and tragic, and more deeply moving than a detective story has any right to be. Read by Patricia Routledge, star of the BBC TV series.

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Until her little setback today, she had done very well. A professional detective would have booked hours, claimed his fares and refreshments, and been denied the use of a Senior Citizen's Gadabout Card. A professional detective would have worked out expensive for Frank, who was a great one for getting everything at cut price.

Was there a market for such a service? Would the local paper take an advertisement? 'Lost Ones Found! Reliable and Discreet Mature Female Detective.' She worried about that 'Female'. Would 'Lady Detective' be better, or might it suggest one of the aristocracy slumming?

And with these musings Hetty Wainthropp, of unadmitted but certainly senior years, begins her new career.

David Cook, with his brilliant eye for observation, creates a cast of characters both comic and tragic that lifts the detective novel to new heights – and Patricia Routledge is Hetty Wainthropp; Hetty the foolish. Hetty the scatterbrained. Hetty the detective.

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Hetty's success in tracing the long-lost son of a friend gives her a taste for detection and she sets up as a private detective. Among her adventures she saves the life of a little girl trapped in machinery and brings back to life her friend Edith, after the death of Edith's bigamous husband.

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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0001052586
  • ISBN 13 9780001052581
  • BindingAudio Cassette
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Published by HarperCollins (1996)
ISBN 10: 0001052586 ISBN 13: 9780001052581
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Book Description Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Read by Patricia Routledge, 2 Cassettes, Cat# HCA:445. The plastic case is intact. The artwork is complete. Both cassettes have been tested. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: B173. Seller Inventory # JSB-B-173

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