The Missing Bronte (Perry Trethowan) by Barnard, Robert 2013 Paperback

Robert Barnard

Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Bronte sisters. Was it a clever forgery, or the literary sensation of the century?What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.'You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read' \""Publishers Weekly\""'One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers' Marcel Berlins, \""The Times\""'Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment' \""New York Times\""