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The twelfth title in the Inspector Pel Mystery series, this is a story of Pel’s beloved Burgundy as the Promised Land. Fires are breaking out all over the province, from small houses to woodland and when a local farmer’s flock of sheep is poisoned, a tray of valuable rings stolen from a local jewellers, and the body of a woman is found, Inspector Pel has his work cut out in this exhilarating murder mystery.
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John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring novels are versatile and entertaining.
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A shoot-out on moonlit Lac Leman leads Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel to the charred remains of an architects' plans, to the solution of a complex murder enquiry, and to the capture of a person attempting to make a fortune out of a disaster.
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0094705208
- ISBN 13 9780094705203
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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