The Quality of Mercy
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Publisher Description
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne
When the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne is one of the first to be deported from Vienna as a well-known anti-Fascist. Before she leaves, she is able to arrange for a young Jew, George Dreiser, to escape to England. But where he expects to find safety, he finds danger and sudden death instead.
Lord Edward Corinth also finds death where he least expects it: in the grounds of Lord Mountbatten's country house. There his nephew Frank stumbles on a corpse. Although the police are satisfied that the man died of natural causes, Edward's niece persuades Edward that all is not as it seems...
In this classic investigation, Verity and Edward find that death comes more often than not to the innocent, and that many lives are left to the mercy of strangers.
Praise for David Roberts:
'A gripping, richly satisfying whodunit with finely observed characters, sparkling with insouciance and stinging menace' Peter James
'A really well-crafted and charming mystery story' Daily Mail
'A perfect example of golden-age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away' Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Framed by a string of murders at the English country estate of Lord Mountbatten, Roberts's seventh Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Brown murder mystery (after 2004's The More Deceived) falls short of the high standard he set with his best work in the series. When the Nazis march into Vienna in the spring of 1938, Verity Browne, a foreign correspondent for the New Gazette, is deported as a known British Communist. Also headed to England on a visa arranged by Verity through her friend Lord Edward is Georg Dreiser, a young Austrian Jew who claims to have valuable information for the British military. But Georg's asylum proves short-lived when he meets a violent death at Lord Mountbatten's estate, where only a week earlier, Lord Edward and his nephew found the body of an up-and-coming artist. At times the author strains to connect plot elements, but as usual, his thorough knowledge of the period adds luster to the story.
