The house of the hanged woman, Kate Ellis
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The house of the hanged woman, Kate Ellis
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eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The house of the hanged woman
Responsibility statement
Kate Ellis
Series statement
Albert Lincoln, 3
Summary
1921, Derbyshire. When a Member of Parliament goes missing in a small Derbyshire village, Scotland Yard detective Albert Lincoln is sent up North to investigate. He finds that a grim discovery has been made in a cave next to an ancient stone circle called the Devil's Dancers: the naked body of a middleaged man mutilated beyond recognition. The local police assume it is the missing politician but when Albert arrives in Wenfield he begins to have doubts. Two years earlier he conducted another traumatic murder investigation in the same village and he finds reminders of a particularly personal tragedy all around him as he tries to help a vicar's widow who claims her husband was murdered. Then there is another murder in Wenfield when an unfaithful young wife with a passion for books is accused of killing her husband. Could there be a link between all of Albert's cases? And can the detective, damaged by war and love, find peace at last?
Target audience
adult
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- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Cheshire (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Derbyshire (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Murder + Investigation -- England -- Cheshire -- Fiction
- Lincoln, Albert, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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- Subject8
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Cheshire (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Derbyshire (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Murder + Investigation -- England -- Cheshire -- Fiction
- Lincoln, Albert, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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- Author1