The Property of Lies
A 1930s’ historical mystery| By: | Marjorie Eccles |
| Publisher: | Severn House |
| Print ISBN: | 9780727887207 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781780108957 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls’ boarding school. 1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who – or what – she claimed to be. Who was she really – and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth? Then a pupil goes missing – and the case takes a disturbing new twist …