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Bezig met laden... Rolling Stone (1940)door Patricia Wentworth
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Frank Garrett (4)
A Foreign Office agent assumes a dead man's identity to infiltrate an international ring of thieves, blackmailers, and murderers Peter Talbot is in Brussels tailing a dangerous con man when the opportunity of a lifetime falls in his lap. His quarry dies, leaving behind a suitcase filled with money, coded messages, a passport, and a cryptic letter about a woman named Maud Millicent Simpson. Reborn as Spike Reilly--a.k.a. James Peter Reilly--a.k.a. Pierre Riel--Talbot follows a twisting trail that leads the undercover operative to an English country estate and into a deadly conspiracy of robbery and murder. Meanwhile, in London, Talbot's uncle, Col. Frank Garrett, is probing a string of purloined masterpieces--the latest stolen from the Louvre. Scotland Yard flummoxed, it falls to the Foreign Office to bring the culprits to justice. As the parallel investigations converge, Garrett and his nephew match wits with a cunning and beautiful criminal who's a brilliant master of disguise. And soon an innocent woman's life is in danger. Patricia Wentworth, author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, combines "adventure, romance, and mystery" (Kirkus Reviews) in this stunning crime novel. Rolling Stone is the 2nd book in the Frank Garrett Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Spike dies soon afterward, and on the spur of the moment, Peter decides to assume the dead man's identity. A simple numeric code coupled with a battered romance novel found in Spike's luggage yields a message: "Go to Preedo's Library, Archmount Street, on Friday. Say you expect call. Await instructions." Peter takes Spike's passport, clothes and personal possessions and leaves his own in the dead man's room. Now "Peter Talbot" is apparently dead in Belgium and "James Peter Reilly" aka Spike is travelling to London to find the mysterious Mrs. Simpson and determine why the Foreign Office is interested in her and her shady employees.
Terry Clive, the heroine of this mystery, is one of those annoying young women who populate these old books. She tells the suspects, "You know who you are. If you don't do the right thing, I shall tell everything to the police on Tuesday." Which, of course, puts her in mortal danger of being bumped off before Tuesday, and so the plot progresses.
The ending is quite good, in spite of all this silliness. Maud Millicent Simpson is a delightfully venomous character, a Cruella de Vil for adults. A fun little mystery published in 1940. ( )