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    A Mansion and its Murder

    By Robert Barnard

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    Sarah Jane Fearing has grown up in the imposing mansion of one of England’s most influential families. At the centre of Sarah’s world stands her charming uncle Frank, the only relative who seems to have escaped the straitjacket of ponderous respectability that so effectively stifles the Fearing clan. But Frank’s extravagant lifestyle leads him deep into debt and manoeuvres him into a disastrous marriage.

    Frank’s wedding to a coldly ambitious woman produces the family’s longed-for male scion, but the parents fall to quarrels, and then to murder. And Sarah is drawn inexorably into a morass that threatens the survival of the entire family.

    From the Belle Epoque to the 1950’s, A Mansion and its Murder holds its secrets to its last suspenseful moment, and proves again the author’s mettle as a mastermind of the traditional mystery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateFeb 27, 2012
    ISBN9780749011819
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    A Mansion and its Murder
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    Robert Barnard

    Robert Barnard (1936-2013) was awarded the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he was a member of Britain's distinguished Detection Club, and, in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing. 

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    • 4/5
      Robert Barnard has created an intriguing central figure in this 'big country house' mystery. The life of the narrator spans the end of the 19th Century and two wars. As the first female heir both to the house and the City bank, Sarah Jane Fearing is determined to step away from the privileged life of the past.
    • 4/5
      Robert Barnard has created an intriguing central figure in this 'big country house' mystery. The life of the narrator spans the end of the 19th Century and two wars. As the first female heir both to the house and the City bank, Sarah Jane Fearing is determined to step away from the privileged life of the past.