| Edition |
First world edition. |
| Description |
215 pages ; 23 cm . |
| Series |
A Jack Haldean mystery ; [8] |
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Gordon-Smith, Dolores.
Jack Haldean mysteries ; 8.
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| Summary |
A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . ‘Art, my dear boy,’ said Mr Askern, ‘especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .’ He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. ‘Art,’ she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. ‘Art! Oh my God, art!’ She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell. Jack Haldean expected Lythewell and Askerns’ exhibition of church art in Lyon House, London, to be a sedate affair. After all, Lythewell and Askern, Church Artists, were a respectable, old-fashioned firm, the last people to be associated with mystery, violence and sudden death. Or so it seemed – until after the exhibition . . . |
| Subject |
Haldean, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Exhibitions -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Novelists, English -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery stories.
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| ISBN |
9780727883766 hardback |
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0727883763 hardback |
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