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Blood From a Stone
Blood From a Stone
Blood From a Stone
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Blood From a Stone

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When Mrs Paxton, related to the aristocratic Leigh family of Sussex, is found poisoned in her bedroom one morning, fingers point towards her artist nephew Terence Napier, seen leaving the house earlier that previous evening after a row over her will. Months later and Napier has never been found, but curiously a dead body is discovered in a train compartment, and scattered at the dead man’s feet are the famous Leigh sapphires – a necklace owned by Mrs Paxton, but destined to go back to the Leighs in the event of her death.
Scotland Yard once again call upon the services of author Jack Haldean to help solve this most complicated of cases. Soon there are links to a serial thief and murderer, known as the The Vicar, and it seems there is more to this case than a family feud over inheritance.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSevern House
Release dateJul 1, 2013
ISBN9781780104157
Blood From a Stone
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Dolores Gordon-Smith

Dolores Gordon-Smith lives in Greater Manchester and is married, with five daughters and assorted dogs and cats.  She is the author of ten previous Jack Haldean mysteries.

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    Body on a train? - tick; Family inheritance? - tick; Mistaken identities? - tick; Poison in the sleeping draught? - tick; Fraudulent wills? - tick; Ridiculous solution? - tick. This mystery has all the expected elements of a pre-WWII British murder mystery, with the addition of a spooky cave and Roman temple. An enjoyable read.

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