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Author Rolls, Anthony, 1886-1971, author.

Title Family matters / Anthony Rolls, with an introduction by Martin Edwards.

Publication Info. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F ROLLS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F ROLLS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F ROLLS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M ROLLS, A.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition, First US trade paperback edition.
Description 237 pages ; 21 cm.
Series British Library Crime Classics
British Library crime classics.
Note Originally published in 1933.
Summary Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public. Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments, incessant bickering. Scarcely any friends will visit the Kewdinghams in their peaceful hometown Shufflecester. Everything is wrong - and with the entrance of John Harrigall, a bohemian bachelor from London who catches Bertha's eye, they take a turn for the worse. Soon deep passions and resentments shatter the calm facade of the Kewdinghams' lives.
Subject Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Poisoning -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Poisoning -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Added Author Edwards, Martin, 1955- writer of introduction.
ISBN 9781464207426 (trade paperback)
1464207429 (trade paperback)
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