The Arsenic Labyrinth (Lake District Mystery, Book 3) by Martin Edwards PDF

By Martin Edwards

ISBN-10: 0749040807

ISBN-13: 9780749040802

'You'd by no means think it to examine me now, yet as soon as upon a time I killed a man'

Historian Daniel sort is discovering iciness within the Lake District difficult, particularly as his dating with Miranda appears at the rocks. faraway from the brilliant lighting fixtures of London, Miranda feels more and more remoted, and Daniel fears that she is going to simply up and depart. She wouldn’t be the 1st. Years in the past, Emma Bestwick left her cottage and not got here again, her disappearance by no means resolved, a lot to the chagrin of DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the neighborhood chilly Case evaluation Team.

But lately there are been calls to the neighborhood newspaper shedding tricks approximately Emma’s loss of life. With the case reopened, Hannah and Daniel are thrown jointly back, and shortly become aware of that somebody is desirous to defend the secrets and techniques of the prior, regardless of the price.

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Gable’s vibe at this early point in his Hollywood career was enacting a growling tough guy, usually named Ace, or Rid, or Rod, and this time Babe. It was his first pic35 The Long Road ture after making MGM’s sensational Red Dust, a sexy and saucy pre-Code picture that had teamed him with Jean Harlow, the blonde bombshell who had stolen Howard Hughes from Lombard. No Man of Her Own became the only picture with both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard except for a silent comedy called The Plastic Age, starring sex symbol Clara Bow and featuring both Carole and Clark in bit parts.

Thirteen short years later, this same James Doolittle, then an Air Corps colonel, would mastermind the first United States air raid on Tokyo, Japan, just four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lombard the voracious reader might have seen a story about Doolittle in the newspaper. It’s more likely she had her hands full with life at a studio the size of Pathe Pictures. Somewhere in this period, during her time under Pathe contract, Lombard adopted the salty vocabulary of a dockworker, and according to her brother Fred Peters, she did it deliberately as a way to level the playing field with the men then in charge, most of whom were wolves at the least, with some unashamed sexual predators thrown in.

Van Gordon was a quick thinker and ran to the phone to call the local sheriff and then hurried back out and stared at the soaring flames. He knew it was a plane; he had heard the humming engines right up until the sound of the explosion. Van Gordon’s first impulse was to rush to the scene, but he knew the looming mountain well enough to understand there was no point to such rash action in the dark of night. That mountain didn’t want people on it; that mountain would kill you easy as you please.

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