The Back Passage
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.15 (812 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1573442437 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-07-01 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He lives in London. James Lear is also the author of The Low Road and The Palace of Varieties.
He lives in London. . About the Author James Lear is also the author of The Low Road and The Palace of Varieties
Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit.A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait Edward Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. Blackma
The Sense of the Past Kevin Killian Cleverly done, THE BACK PASSAGE explores relations between upstairs and downstairs at Drekeham Hall, a British country estate near Norfolk in the year 1925, on the eve of the General Strike that solidified labor and brought globalism to a halt for a few brief, ecstatic weeks. Like a Henry James heroine, young Edward Mitchell is an American student at Cambridge, is the "heiress to all the ages." At . A good first impression First book I have read by this author. It was a good mystery rolled up in family drama and hot sex.. Upstairs, Downstairs and a Back Passage When this little mystery novel opens, Edward Mitchell, a Bostonian pursuing postgraduate studies at Cambridge University, finds himself in a steamy (in more ways than one) closet under the stairs of Drekeham Hall, "a stone's throw from the crumbly cliffs of the north Norfolk coast," with his best friend Harry "Boy" Morgan who has invited him down to meet the English upper class family of his fiance