A Share in Death

Paperback

Main Details

Title A Share in Death
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Deborah Crombie
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780330342469
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Pan Books
Publication Date 23 June 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath ends Kincaid's vacation before it's begun. One of his new acquaintances at Followdale House is dead; another is a killer. Despite a distinct lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised dramatically when a second murder occurs, and Kincaid and James find themselves in a determined hunt for a fiendish felon who enjoys homicide a bit too much.

Author Biography

Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas. After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote this novel, which is the first novel in her Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James series. She has since been nominated for the Agatha, Macavity and Edgar Awards and is published across the world. Deborah lives with her family in a small North Texas town and frequently visits the UK.

Reviews

Kirkus Review US:The morning after Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid arrives at Followdale House in northern England, he finds assistant manager Sebastian Wade's electrocuted corpse in the time-share's pool. Suicide, insists dim, boorish local Chief Inspector Nash, but Duncan interrupts his holiday to investigate his fellow guests: political hopeful Patrick Rennie and his well-connected wife Marta; endearing spinster sisters Penelope and Emma MacKenzie; ex-army twit Edward Lyle and his long-suffering wife Janet; and attractive scientist Hannah Alcock, who has her own hidden agenda at Followdale. There'll be more murderous attacks, some neat mystification, and a modestly effective solution, though Anglophilic first-novelist Crombie, a Texan, piles on the Yorkshire charm a little thick. Quietly competent, in the manner of the early Martha Grimes. (Kirkus Reviews)