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A gem catching to perfection the social atmospherics of VictorianBrighton and at the same time telling an ingenious story of murder anddiscovery.Publishers Weekly His best yet.H. R. F. Keating The TimesLondon The sleuthing is neat and satisfying in the meantime Victorianpleasures permitted and illicit are rendered up with gusto.GuardianBrighton in 1882 is the setting of this novel of crime and tangled emotions.Albert Moscrop a visitor whose holiday is dedicated to peering through atelescope at the seaside scene marches down Queens Road to the beach anddraws us through a sequence of disarmingly trivial observations into acompelling drama played in the fashionable haunts of the nineteenthcenturyresort beach piers promenade swimming bath aquarium and Devils Dyke.A keen student of human nature Moscrop concentrates his interest on oneparticular family of holidaymakersthe Protheros and especially the beautifulZena Prothero whose husband appears to take her excessively for granted.Gradually Moscrop moves into the circle of the Prothero family only to becomeinvolved in a sensational murder. All Brighton is horrified by the gruesomecrime. The local police seek the help of Scotland Yard which is provided inthe persons of Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray. These indomitabledetectives soon find themselves challenged by the strangest case of theircareers one that is as mystifying as it is macabre. «
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