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Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Paperback
Main Details
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Kissed a Sad Goodbye
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Deborah Crombie
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:480 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780330369909
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
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Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint |
Pan Books
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| Publication Date |
4 August 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In the past: It is September 1939 and thousands of children are being evacuated from London. Among them 12-year-olds Lewis Finch and William Hammond, both billeted on the Surrey estate of the formidable Regina Burne-Jones. Both become allies, then friends, and thus begins a story of choice and betrayal the repercussions of which will echo down the years...In the present: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are called out to investigate a death in London's East End. A young woman known as Annabelle Hammond has been strangled. Prime suspect is a busker she was seen talking to just before she disappeared. And when he turns out to be Gordon Finch, Duncan decides to investigate events which occurred more than fifty years before.
Author Biography
Deborah Crombie was born and educated in Texas. After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James novel. 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. Kissed a Sad Goodbye is her sixth novel.
ReviewsKirkus Review US:Scotland Yard's Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid (Mourn Not Your Dead, 1996, etc.), whose London turf includes the Past Docklands, is called back to work from a weekend with the 11-year-old Kit, his dead ex-wife's son, supposedly by her second husband, though Kincaid is sure he himself is the boy's father. A young woman has been found strangled in Mudchute Park. Soon identified as the victim is Annabelle Hammond - the clever, beautiful daughter of William Hammond, head of Hammond Fine Teas, which occupies a warehouse on the docks much coveted by builder Lewis Finch. Annabelle practically ran the business, with help from secretary Teresa Robbins, but it's in her promiscuous love life that Kincaid is looking for clues to her killer. Annabelle's affair with her sister Jo's husband, Martin Cowell, had killed that marriage; her liaison with Lewis Finch is no secret; neither is her affair with Lewis's son Gordon, an impoverished street musician. Not only that, but her death was preceded by a quarrel with Reg Mortimer, Annabelle's official fiance of several years and a prime suspect - at least until Kincaid begins to explore the wartime experience shared by Lewis Finch and William Hammond. The bizarre happenings of those long-ago days, when Finch and Hammond were evacuated from bombed London to the country house of Edwina Bourne-Jones, a patrician but loving benefactress, hold the key to Annabelle's murder and to the suicide that followed. The plotlines and cast are a bit overelaborate, but the story is compelling from start to finish. Another winner from a dependable and gifted pro. (Kirkus Reviews)
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