The frozen shroud
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Scottsdale, Ariz. :
Poisoned Pen Press,
c2013.
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| Series: | A Lake District mystery
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| Summary: | Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Katya Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries. Daniel Kind becomes fascinated by the old cases. Death returns to Ravenbank, and once more, the victim is a woman, once more her damaged face is shrouded from view. |
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| Physical Description: | 278 p. : map ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781464201059 1464201056 9781464201073 1464201072 |
| Author Notes: | Martin is a well-known crime fiction critic, and series consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics. His ground-breaking study of the genre between the wars, The Golden Age of Murder, was warmly reviewed around the world, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards. His The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books has been nominated for five awards. A well-known commentator on crime fiction, he has edited 37 anthologies and published diverse non-fiction books, including a studyof homicide investigation, Urge to Kill. An expert on crime fiction history, he is archivist of both the Crime Writers' Association and the Detection Club. He was elected eighth President of the Detection Club in 2015, is current Chair of the CWA, and posts regularly to his blog, 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' |
