'He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.'Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until - to her neighbours' surprise - she suddenly marries a much younger man. Months later, Amy is found dead - apparently by her own hand - and her husband, Wright, has disappeared.Sergeant Caleb Cluff - silent, watchful, a man at home in the bleak moorland landscape of Gunnarshaw - must find the truth about the couple's unlikely marriage, and solve the riddle of Amy's death.This novel, originally published in 1960, is the first in the series of Sergeant Cluff detective stories that were televised in the 1960s but have long been neglected.
This new edition is published in the centenary year of the author's birth.
| ISBN: | 9780712356466 |
| Publication date: | 10th July 2016 |
| Author: | Gil North |
| Publisher: | British Library Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 167 pages |
| Series: | British Library Crime Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic crime and mystery fiction |
'He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.'Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until - to her neighbours' surprise - she suddenly marries a much younger man. Months later, Amy is found dead - apparently by her own hand - and her husband, Wright, has disappeared.Sergeant Caleb Cluff - silent, watchful, a man at home in the bleak moorland landscape of Gunnarshaw - must find the truth about the couple's unlikely marriage, and solve the riddle of Amy's death.This novel, originally published in 1960, is the first in the series of Sergeant Cluff detective stories that were televised in the 1960s but have long been neglected.
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm features in the following genres: Classic crime and mystery fiction
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Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm was written by Gil North and published by British Library Publishing
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm has 167 pages
Yes it is part of British Library Crime Classics series
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