Bibliograph

Blood from a stone

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Blood from a stone

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Blood from a stone

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The Jack Haldean mysteries, 7

Summary

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 Vicar, and it seems there is more to this case than a family feud over inheritance

Target audience

adult

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