A Medal For Murder
by:
Frances Brody (author)
A pawn-shop robbery- It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only one step behind ...A fatal stabbing- A night at...
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A pawn-shop robbery- It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only one step behind ...A fatal stabbing- A night at the theatre should have been just what the doctor ordered, until Kate stumbles across a body in the doorway. The knife sticking out of its chest definitely suggests a killer in the theatre's midst. A ransom demand- Kate likes nothing better than a mystery - and nothing better than solving them. So when a ransom note demands GBP1,000 for the safe return of the play's leading lady, the refined streets of Harrogate play host to Kate's skills in piecing together clues - and luring criminals out of their lairs ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749941925 (0749941928)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Piatkus
Pages no: 426
Edition language: English
Series: Kate Shackleton (#2)
Mrs Shackleton's second professional case involves tracking down a thief who robbed a pawnshop in bright daylight. The murdered man she stumbles upon outside a Harrowgate theatre seems, at first, unconnected. But that isn't the way detective novels work, is it? Kate is dragged into an investigation ...
A detective series set in the 20s with a lady detective. Quite interesting as a surmise, and she's certainly got an interesting backstory - although I'm not sure how effective she is as a detective - but a good story, nonetheless. Second in the series, but not having read the first didn't seem to hi...
Kate has a new case and this time it's not searching for a missing person...at least not at first. There has been a pawn-shop-robbery and she gets asked to help. But she gets distracted when she goes to see a play and finds a body on her way home, the leading actress of the play disappears and a ran...