Easeful Death - Hardcover
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Concerned over his niece's involvement with a local sect, Seaminster Police Chief Maurice Kendrick approaches Phyllida Moon as an ordinary citizen and asks her to investigate.
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A Phyllida Moon mystery
About the Author
An only child, Eileen Dewhurst was self-sufficient and bookish from an early age, preferring solitude or one-to-one contacts to groups, and hating sport.Her first attempts at writing were not auspicious.At 14, a would-be family saga was aborted by an uncle discovering it and quoting from it choked with laughter.A second setback came a few years later at school, when a purple passage was returned with the words 'Cut this cackle!' written across it in red ink: a chastening lesson in how embellishments can weaken rather than strengthen one's message.
Eileen read English at Oxford, and afterwards spent some unmemorable years in 'Admin' before breaking free and dividing her life in two: winters in London doing temporary jobs to earn money and experience, summers at home as a freelance journalist,spinning 'think pieces' for the Liverpool Daily Post and any other publications that would take them, and reporting on food and fashion for the long defunct Illustrated Liverpool News, as well as writing a few plays.
Her first sustained piece of writing was a fantasy for children which was never published but secured an agent.Her Great Autobiographical Novel was never published either, although damned with faint praise and leading to an attempt at crime writing that worked: over the next thirty years she produced almost a book a year and also published some short stories in anthologies and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Eileen has always written from an ironic stance, never allowing her favourite characters to take themselves too seriously: a banana skin is ever lurking.
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- PublisherSevern House Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0727859064
- ISBN 13 9780727859068
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st world edition. Fine in dust jacket. Usually it is with grudging reluctance that Seaminster Police Chief Maurice Kendrick accepts the help of the Peter Piper Detective Agency. But now he approaches PI Phyllida Moon as plain, humble Mr Kendrick, wrung out with anxiety about his niece's involvement with a local sect that promises life after death. As Phyllida, disguised as the affable Miss Lubbock, begins her investigation, one, and later another, of the sect's young acolytes leap from a cliff into the sea. Whatever they've found beyond the grave, the question remains: was it suicide? Or murder?. Book. Seller Inventory # 013920
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