A01=P. M. Hubbard
Author_P. M. Hubbard
Category=FF
crime fiction
English countryside
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investigation
murder
mystery
secret agent
spy story
suspense
The Murder Room
thriller
Product details
- ISBN 9781471900754
- 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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While hunting in the English countryside, Ben Selby stumbles upon the murdered body of Peter Gaston, a friend of some twenty years earlier. As they had both been agents in a clandestine organisation, he is convinced that Peter was killed to prevent their meeting and sets out to question his widow.
What she tells him is the beginning of a perilous and exasperating search for something buried long ago on a remote island headland.
Praised by critics for his clean prose style, characterization, and the strong sense of place in his novels, Philip Maitland Hubbard was born in Reading, in Berkshire and brought up in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 1933. From 1934 until its disbandment in 1947 he served with the Indian Civil Service. On his return to England he worked for the British Council, eventually retiring to work as a freelance writer. He contributed to a number of publications, including Punch, and wrote 16 novels for adults as well as two children's books. He lived in Dorset and Scotland, and many of his novels draw on his interest in and knowledge of rural pursuits and folk religion.
