The corpse in the garden of perfect brightness
Pryce, Malcolm2020
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It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock - the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak. But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth.
Main title:
The corpse in the garden of perfect brightness / Malcolm Pryce.
Author:
Pryce, Malcolm, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2020.
Collation:
352 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781408895290 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2269122