Mr Fred

Paperback

Main Details

Title Mr Fred
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Buxton Hilton
SeriesInspector Thomas Brunt
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:154
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9781447229445
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Macmillan Bello
Publication Date 9 August 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

"There is nothing that calls back the past so vividly as an old and familiar smell. I knew then what had turned my thoughts to Mr Fred tonight. I am over eighty now, but that aroma would still take me back. When Inspector Brunt tore the door open in front of my face, I caught the tang of a brand of pipe tobacco that I shall recognize to my dying day. Inspector Brunt, of course, thought it was my father's." The setting of this powerful mystery is Edwardian Derbyshire. The story is told by Kathy in her old age, but the events she describes took place when she was still a child at school, living in abysmal poverty. Kathy secretly encounters the mysterious Mr Fred who is being hidden on her father's farm. But why? Who is Mr Fred? What is the truth behind the scandalous rumours about him? Surely it cannot be true that this kindly man is a pervert and a murderer? And why does her dull-witted brother finally murder him? If he did . . .

Author Biography

John Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing. He wrote two books on language teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer - his works include the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood.