Empty Vessels: A Bartlett & Boase Mystery

By Marina Pascoe
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Published: July 16, 2011
Words: 67,307 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465921970

Short description

Empty Vessels is the first in a series of Bartlett and Boase Mysteries by Marina Pascoe. The two detectives will return in another adventure the following year, Too Many Cooks. The series, chronologically, historically and geographically accurate will see out the 1920’s in exciting and surprising style!

Extended description

It is the closing months of 1921 and Detective Inspector George Bartlett has a young girl missing on his Falmouth patch. Events take a turn for the worse when a woman is found dead, badly mutilated, on a local beach the next day. Bartlett and his assistant, Archie Boase, soon realise the woman was a well-known local prostitute, Ivy Williams. At the heart of this tale is the Pengelly family, unw...ittingly
drawn in through a daughter’s involvement with the prime murder suspect. A web of illegitimacy, inheritance and secrecy is spun throughout the story with so many suspects and red herrings and the shadow of the workhouse looming. The hangman’s noose is swinging precariously over one of the suspects and decisions have to be made. Mysterious goings-on at Penvale Manor House with spoilt twin heirs, a corrupt and disenchanted batman from the First World War and the naivety of a young, simple shop assistant make heavy weather for Bartlett and Boase. Deception and disguise play a part .. (Read more) It is the closing months of 1921 and Detective Inspector George Bartlett has a young girl missing on his Falmouth patch. Events take a turn for the worse when a woman is found dead, badly mutilated, on a local beach the next day. Bartlett and his assistant, Archie Boase, soon realise the woman was a well-known local prostitute, Ivy Williams. At the heart of this tale is the Pengelly family, unw...ittingly
drawn in through a daughter’s involvement with the prime murder suspect. A web of illegitimacy, inheritance and secrecy is spun throughout the story with so many suspects and red herrings and the shadow of the workhouse looming. The hangman’s noose is swinging precariously over one of the suspects and decisions have to be made. Mysterious goings-on at Penvale Manor House with spoilt twin heirs, a corrupt and disenchanted batman from the First World War and the naivety of a young, simple shop assistant make heavy weather for Bartlett and Boase. Deception and disguise play a part in the final spectacular showdown aboard a vessel moored in the River Fal when the true killer is revealed.
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