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The Case of the Missing Brontė (Perry Trethowan, Bk 3)
The Case of the Missing Bronte - Perry Trethowan, Bk 3
Author: Robert Barnard
Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cozy Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Bronte manuscript. Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn't realize that for a criminal the manuscript is motive for theft, torture--and murder.
ISBN-13: 9780684179100
ISBN-10: 0684179105
Publication Date: 6/1/1983
Pages: 182
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Board book
Other Versions: Paperback
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Perry, Jan, and their son Daniel are returning from a visit to Jan's famil, when their car breaks down in a little town. The town takes care of them, and the couple go to a local pub where an old lady asks them about an interesting manuscript which might by by a Bronte! Perry suggests places for her to take it for verification, and from their begins a tale of liteature & death.It appears that someone else is after the papers, and will stop at nothing to get them. As Perry, who happens to be from Scotland Yard, met the lady, he is assigned the case, and goes on a search for the papers which were stolen, and the thieves and others involed.

This is an interesting book written with a Britsh flair. It doea describe Britist areas and customs, and taught me some about the country. The mystery does get a little involved, keeping the interest. Go ahead - order it and read it! Enjoy!

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