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The Glade Manor Murder
(1988)(Book 17 in the Pollard and Toye series)
A novel by Elizabeth Lemarchand
It's the final case for detectives Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin.
Family secrets come crashing to the surface...
Glade Manor, in the village of the Buckford, has been home to the Morley family for over a century.
For the past thirty years, the family has been looked after by their devoted former nursemaid, now housekeeper, Nanky.
But the family is cast into turmoil when the body of Nanky is found in a quarry, having been violently thrown from a cliff.
With the death clearly murder and the suspects all local, the puzzling case proves too much for the local police force.
Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye are brought in to solve the mystery.
Who would have a grudge against an unassuming housemaid? Could it have been a member of the Morley family?
And will more dark secrets be uncovered in the grounds of Glade Manor... ?
The Glade Manor Murder is the seventeenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.
'Lemarchand's forte is character development, and she delineates some memorable characters here' - Publishers Weekly
'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy
THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
Genre: Mystery
Family secrets come crashing to the surface...
Glade Manor, in the village of the Buckford, has been home to the Morley family for over a century.
For the past thirty years, the family has been looked after by their devoted former nursemaid, now housekeeper, Nanky.
But the family is cast into turmoil when the body of Nanky is found in a quarry, having been violently thrown from a cliff.
With the death clearly murder and the suspects all local, the puzzling case proves too much for the local police force.
Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Pollard and Detective Inspector Toye are brought in to solve the mystery.
Who would have a grudge against an unassuming housemaid? Could it have been a member of the Morley family?
And will more dark secrets be uncovered in the grounds of Glade Manor... ?
The Glade Manor Murder is the seventeenth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.
'Lemarchand's forte is character development, and she delineates some memorable characters here' - Publishers Weekly
'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy
THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
Genre: Mystery
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