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    142 Wellington Place
    142 Wellington Place
    142 Wellington Place
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    142 Wellington Place

    By Tim Selvadurai

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    The suspense in this engaging crime narrative is riveting and keeps building up until it reaches a most unexpected climax filled with excitement and pathos.

    Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don. It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the couples home: Ada Hamilton, a young, fragile, pregnant girl who clutches love letters written in Dons hand. Unfortunately, Don is in London, and Celia wants Ben to find out if her husband truly is a liar and a cheat.

    Ben heads up to London to confront his old friend and then returns to Celias house to deliver the sad news that Don has admitted to the affair. But then things take a strange and sudden turn. Two police inspectors arrive minutes later and reveal that Dons body has been found in his rooming house at 142 Wellington Place. Whether his death was by suicide or murder, they cantor, more accurately, wontsay.

    The authorities open up an inquest into Dons death, and Ben accompanies the police back to London, where they interview witnesses and gather evidence. Tracking down Dons mistress complicates things and there is a great twist when a second Miss Hamilton turns up. Something is certainly rotten at 142 Wellington Place.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 2, 2013
    ISBN9781475995725
    142 Wellington Place
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    Tim Selvadurai

    Tim Selvadurai was born in Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). He was educated in his own country and in England. Selvadurai worked for twenty-five years in the United Nations with UNESCO, UNDP, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) at its headquarters in Nairobi. He and his family then immigrated to Canada, where he now resides. This is his first novel.

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