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A01=Donald Thomas
Author_Donald Thomas
British Crime Writer
British detective
British Library Classics
Category=FF
Classic crime fiction
cosy crime
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Golden Age Detective Fiction
if you like Agatha Christie
if you like Anthony Gilbert
if you like Dorothy L Sayers
if you like Lord Peter Wimsey
if you like Midsomer Murders
if you like Miss Marple
if you like Poirot
Jessica Fellowes
Mitford Murders
murder
noir crime fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781471904424
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The sensational events of the summer of 1907 - the disappearance of the Ascot Gold Cup from the Royal Enclosure, and the even more astonishing theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from a locked and guarded strongroom in Dublin Castle - remain mysterious but apparently random events. Only one man knows their secret. Captain Richard Gaudeans, cashiered officer, conman and cracksman, cuts a more appropriate figure among the fairground booths where he earns his living than the corridors of power. But the course of the year takes him into both. And in both he uses his skill and cunning to outmanoeuvre everyone in his path.
Donald Thomas was born in Somerset and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair in the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. His numerous crime novels include two collections of Sherlock Holmes stories and a hugely successful historical detective series written under the pen name Francis Selwyn and featuring Sergeant Verity of Scotland Yard, as well as gritty police procedurals written under the name of Richard Dacre. He is also the author of seven biographies and a number of other non-fiction works, and won the Gregory Prize for his poems, Points of Contact. He lives in Bath with his wife.
