And a Bottle of Rum

Theodore Terhune Series, #7

Reeks: Theodore Terhune Series

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  • Stretched
  • across
  • the
  • road
  • was
  • the
  • body
  • of
  • a
  • policeman.On
  • the
  • way
  • home
  • one
  • evening
  • in
  • the
  • Romney
  • Marsh,
  • Bookseller
  • Theodore
  • Terhune
  • and
  • friend
  • Julia
  • are
  • caught
  • in
  • heavy
  • coastal
  • fog.
  • A
  • passing
  • lorry
  • provides
  • some
  • guidance
  • on
  • the
  • narrow
  • country
  • roads,
  • but
  • the
  • night
  • ends
  • with
  • intentional
  • mishap
  • and
  • a
  • dead
  • body.
  • It
  • becomes
  • clear
  • that
  • the
  • constable's
  • death
  • was
  • not
  • accidental,
  • but
  • what
  • possessed
  • Tom
  • Kitchen
  • to
  • try
  • to
  • stop
  • a
  • lorry
  • singlehandedly
  • at
  • 1am?
  • His
  • widow
  • is
  • frightened;
  • local
  • farms
  • vandalized;
  • his
  • home
  • ransacked.
  • Suspicion
  • centres
  • around
  • the
  • Load
  • of
  • Hay,
  • an
  • ancient
  • Dickensian
  • pub
  • full
  • of
  • unsavoury
  • characters,
  • and
  • Terhune
  • finds
  • the
  • clues
  • may
  • lay
  • in
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • 18th
  • century
  • smuggling
  • in
  • the
  • Romney
  • Marsh.BRUCE
  • GRAEME
  • (1900–82)
  • was
  • a
  • pseudonym
  • of
  • Graham
  • Montague
  • Jeffries,
  • an
  • author
  • of
  • more
  • than
  • 100
  • crime
  • novels
  • and
  • a
  • founding
  • member
  • of
  • the
  • Crime
  • Writers'
  • Association.
  • He
  • created
  • six
  • series
  • sleuths,
  • including
  • bookseller
  • and
  • accidental
  • detective
  • Theodore
  • Terhune,
  • whose
  • adventures—Seven
  • Clues
  • in
  • Search
  • of
  • a
  • Crime
  • (1941);
  • House
  • with
  • Crooked
  • Walls
  • (1942);
  • A
  • Case
  • for
  • Solomon
  • (1943);
  • Work
  • for
  • the
  • Hangman
  • (1944);
  • Ten
  • Trails
  • to
  • Tyburn
  • (1944);
  • A
  • Case
  • of
  • Books
  • (1946)
  • and
  • And
  • a
  • Bottle
  • of
  • Rum
  • (1949)—are
  • republished
  • by
  • Moonstone Press.
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