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Mark Hebden | ||
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Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier and a history teacher. During World War II, he served with two forces and two navies. His daughter, Juliet Hebden kept the Inspector Pel series alive, penning two further novels: "Pel Picks Up The Pieces" and "Pel and the Perfect Partner" |
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1995, Constable & Company, hbk In stock, click image above to buy for £5.99 (good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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Storyline: Inspector Pel investigates the savage murder of the comely Madame Chenandier, demolished with a heavy instrument. A murder has been committed in provincial France, and it is as puzzling a case as any that Inspector Pel has handled. The body has been severely battered, as if by a lunatic. There are some obvious suspects, yet the clothes of none of them show any signs of blood. And what were the tensions that must have torn at this family? Moody, irascible, sharp-tongued, worrying constantly about his health, Inspector Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel knows there is something about the case he ought to understand, but it constantly eludes him until another murder and a small boy suddenly make it clear. Mark Hebden, in his first "Pel" novel, introduces a set of detectives, each as individual as the Patron himself - sharp, shrewd and quick at repartee. The locale is Dijon and Burgundy, one of the largest and proudest provinces of France |
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