England Expects
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Beschreibung des Verlags
1953, Brighton, London and Cambridge.
Set during the summer heatwave of 1953, England Expects finds Mirabelle and Vesta investigating the seemingly unrelated murders of a racing journalist and a cleaning woman. Their searches lead them through Brighton Pavilion's crumbling passageways to the quad of a Cambridge college and, finally, into the shady underworld of freemasonry, where betraying secrets can cost you dearly. But this time has Mirabelle bitten off more than she can chew?
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London journalist Joey Gillingham says he's in Brighton to cover a boxing match, but he's actually heading for a meeting on a career-changing scoop, in Sheridan's strained third mystery set in 1950s England (after 2017's London Calling). When Gillingham ends up with his throat slashed, debt collector Mirabelle Bevan is intrigued by the unusually bold crime. Slipshod treatment of the body by the police, many of whom are Freemasons, convinces her that the secretive brotherhood is covering something up and after Gillingham's coded journal goes missing, Det. Supt. Alan McGregor, Mirabelle's secret admirer, is inclined to agree. When Mirabelle and her business partner, Vesta Churchill, talk their way into the Masonic lodge, they witness its charlady die of poisoning. A visit to the derelict Brighton Pavilion, where the dead woman also worked, produces new puzzles. The Masons remain generic villains beneath their exotic trappings, and the investigation relies too much on unfounded surmise, coincidence, and confession. Hopefully, Sheridan, who has a gift for evoking the era's class, racial, and social tensions, will return to form next time.)
