Midnight Come

Anthony, Michael David

ISBN 10: 0002326485 / ISBN 13: 9780002326483

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, LONDON, 1998

About this Item

Signed by the Author on the title page. First Edition. Purple hardcover with silver titling to spine. 302 pages. Clean and tight. Probably never read. Bumps to spine ends and corners, else Very Good condition. Slightly cocked to the right. Only signed copy on internet at this listing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # G6392

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Midnight Come
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002326485
• ISBN 13: 9780002326483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

‘Utterly engaging. Canterbury tale of skulduggery combined with ecclesiastical morals and politics’ Daily Telegraph

The sequestered peace of the Canterbury Cathedral community is shattered by the arrival of a poison-pen letter. Reluctantly dragged from his administrative duties to investigate the allegations of gross sexual misconduct between a recently widowed parson and his female assistant, senior Church official Richard Harrison accidentally stumbles upon the horrific scene of a double killing. In doing so, he is set on a lonely, tortuous path to discover the identity of the anonymous letter-writer, whose malicious libels apparently precipitated the tragic deaths.

Faced with a seemingly motiveless malignancy, Harrison follows a maze of leads in which the proposed sale of a 200-year-old charity cottage and the short, violent life of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century poet and playwright, appear to twine about the bizarre happenings in a country parish, leading finally to that midnight hour when past misdeeds have to be paid for, and when, in the words of Doctor Faustus, ‘the clock will strike and the devil will come…’

About the Author

Michael David Anthony is the son of Welsh parents, his father being an Anglican parson, and grew up in country vicarages. On leaving school he worked as a cub reporter and later travelled extensively in Britain and abroad working in a variety of occupations. He now lives in London.