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Detective Book Club: The Hanging tree; Something wicked; And Then there was Nun
Detective Book Club The Hanging tree Something wicked And Then there was Nun Author:Bill Knox, E. X. Ferrars, Monica Quill 1: The Hanging tree by Bill Knox (c)1983: Colin Thane and his Scottish Crime Squad team are called to investigate the discovery of a pirated videotape, the blockbuster American film 'The Hanging Tree'. Under round-the-clock protection in the States, the film isn't set for release in Europe for weeks. But thousands have already seen the film as o... more »rganized crime has moved in with pirated versions---ready, willing and able to kill for the tremendous amount of money to be made for the scam. Big money--big murder. 2: Something wicked by E. X. Ferrars (c)1983: The offer of a cottage in the Berkshire village of Godlingham comes at a seemingly propitious moment for retired professor Andrew Basnett. Engaged in writing a biography of a seventeenth-century scientist, Andrew faces a series of upsetting interruptions from the men scheduled to repaint his London flat. Peter Dilly's offer of the cottage is gratefully accepted, but after a smooth move and a period of excellent work, the electricity fails. The bitter cold of an English winter and the constant darkness are enough; when murder enters, Andrew is sorry he left London. Who killed Henry Hewison in Peter Dilly's cottage? 3: And Then there was Nun by Monica Quill (c)1984: If you miss Miss Marple and long for another Sherlock Holmes, meet Emtee Dempsey, seventy-three, nun, historian, and marvellous sleuth. She would stick to history if the twentieth century were in good hands...it is with Emtee!« less