Diabolic Candelabra: A Bobby Owen Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01IXTRUL6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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His employers soon informed him that he would never make a really satisfactory clerk, and he, agreeing, spent the next few years wandering about Canada and the United States, endeavouring without great success to earn a living in any occupation that offered. Returning home by way of working a passage on a cattle boat, he began to write. E.R. Punshon was
About the AuthorE.R. Punshon was born in London in 1872.At the age of fourteen he started life in an office. Returning home by way of working a passage on a cattle boat, he began to write. He contributed to many magazines and periodicals, wrote plays, and published nearly fifty novels, among which his detective stories proved the most popular and enduring.He died in 1956.. His employers soon informed him that he would never make a really satisfactory clerk, and he, agreeing, spent the next few years wandering about Canada and the United States, endeavouring without great success to earn a living in any occupation that offered
Sayers. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.” Dorothy L. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.“What is distinction? … in the works of Mr. It is the seventeenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series including thirty-five novels. But the most innocent beginning means trouble for Bobby Owen: take one wood-dwelling hermit, a girl who talks to animals, an evil stepfather and two exceedingly valuable works of art, and you have the recipe, not for chocolate, but for one of Punshon’s most satisfying and devilish mysteries.This beguiling story of labyrinths and seemingly impossible murder is a challenge and a treat for armchair sleuths everywhere. “Ode to a chocolate,” murmured Bobby.Olive, Inspector Bobby Owen’s wife, is on a mission to obtain the recipe for some uncommonly good chocolates. Diabolic Candelabra was originally published in 1942
Puzzling Gothic detective novel sure to please Golden Age fans Pretty Sinister The settings in the labyrinthine detective novel by E.R. Punshon are tantalizingly named and may be just the bait to lure you inside the pages of this remarkably well done story. It seems as if we're in the land of LeFanu with a house called Barsley Abbey surrounded by the picturesque lake Heron's Mere, the t. Amazon Customer said This is a puzzle within a puzzle within a puzzle. There are a lot of viable suspect but the wily Bobby comes through. A lot of well drawn characters and good dramatic tension. Modern inspite of its age.