1800s
1840s
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Author_Katherine Stansfield
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Cornish Mysteries
Cornwall
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folklore
gothic
Jamaica Inn
justice
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moorland
murder mystery
nineteenth century
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SN=Cornish Mysteries
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Victorian period
Product details
- ISBN 9780749022877
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Allison & Busby
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Jamaica Inn, 1844: the talk is of witches. A boy has vanished in the woods of Trethevy on the North Cornish coast, and a reward is offered for his return. Shilly has had enough of such dark doings, but her new companion, the woman who calls herself Anna Drake, insists they investigate. Anna wants to open a detective agency, and the reward would fund it. They soon learn of a mysterious pair of strangers who have likely taken the boy, and of Saint Nectan who, legend has it, kept safe the people of the woods. As Shilly and Anna seek the missing child, the case takes another turn - murder. Something is stirring in the woods and old sins have come home to roost.
Katherine Stansfield is a novelist and poet whose novels The Visitor and The Magpie Tree have won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Award. She grew up in the wilds of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and lived on the west coast of Wales for many years.
