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A Fortnight by the Sea

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Fortnight by the Sea
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Emma Page
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Crime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780008175924
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication Date 10 March 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A beach holiday is ruined by a murder, committed with a cyanide-sprinkled sandwich. The death of a guest casts a shadow over the summer holiday season at Oakfields mansion. The murder weapon is discovered: a sandwich, seasoned with a good pinch of cyanide. Motives abound among the other holidaymakers staying at Oakfields, a strange and fascinating group of people with plenty of secrets to hide...

Author Biography

Emma Page first began writing as a hobby, and after a number of her poems had been accepted by the BBC and her short stories began appearing in weekly magazines, she took to writing radio plays and crime novels. She was first published in the Crime Club, which later become Collins Crime. An English graduate from Oxford, Emma Page taught in every kind of educational establishment the UK and abroad before she started writing full-time.

Reviews

Praise for Emma Page: 'A cunningly assembled net-tightener' The Times