A game of fear : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery / Charles Todd.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : William Morrow, 2022Edition: First editionISBN: 9780062905604Subject(s): Rutledge, Ian (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- England -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical | FICTION / Historical / World War I | FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense | Murder -- Investigation | Police | Rutledge, Ian (Fictitious character) | Rutledge, Ian (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- Fiction | Homicide -- Fiction | Essex (England) -- Fiction | England | England -- EssexGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Thriller Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels.DDC classification: 823.0872 Other classification: Summary: "Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost"--Summary: Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex. At Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past, the lady of the house claims she saw a violent murder-- but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war. Everyone in the village believes that the losses of the grieving widow and mother have turned her mind, but the woman Rutledge interviews is rational and self-possessed. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly-- until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follows. -- adapted from jacket
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"Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost"--
Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex. At Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past, the lady of the house claims she saw a violent murder-- but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war. Everyone in the village believes that the losses of the grieving widow and mother have turned her mind, but the woman Rutledge interviews is rational and self-possessed. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly-- until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follows. -- adapted from jacket
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