Alas Poor Father (Red Mask Mystery) - Hardcover

Joan Fleming

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399110895 ISBN 13: 9780399110894

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1973

Synopsis

Brigadier Basil Patricott, presently engaged on hush hush business for the foreign office, is a man able to cope with anything - except his two small motherless sons. As a result they run wild in the company of an eccentric Irish pigeon fancier, living with his sinister brother in a house of mysterious locked doors.

Then one of the boys goes exploring, and what he sees behind those doors marks him down for immediate death.

'She has the gift of creating instantly credible characters' Sunday Times

'Twists and turns all over the place' Observer

About this title

Book Description:

Twice CWA Gold Dagger award-winner

About the Author:

Joan Fleming was one of the most original and literate crime writers of her generation. Born in Lancashire and educated at Lausanne University she became the wife of a Harley Street eye surgeon and mother of four, and was already a successful children's author before she turned to crime. She is the author of over thirty novels and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1962 for When I Grow Rich and again in 1970 for Young Man, I Think You're Dying. The Deeds of Dr Deadcert was made into the 1958 film Rx for Murder.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0399110895
• ISBN 13: 9780399110894
• Binding: Hardcover