Instrument of slaughter / Edward Marston.
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TextSeries: Magna large print | Marston, Edward. Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy ; bk.2.Publisher: Long Preston [England] : Magna, 2013Edition: Large print editionDescription: 451 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750537872 (hbk.)Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Large type books. Summary: Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies', and subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors is brutally bludgeoned to death, Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case. As the pair build up a portrait of Cyril, they unearth an intriguing private life behind the man's saintly facade. Meanwhile, public sympathy is lukewarm. Some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die. Marmion and Keedy will have to work fast to find the killer before any more deaths occur...
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| wnor- Book | Wundowie Northam Large Print | F MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111052583299 |
Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies', and subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors is brutally bludgeoned to death, Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case. As the pair build up a portrait of Cyril, they unearth an intriguing private life behind the man's saintly facade. Meanwhile, public sympathy is lukewarm. Some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die. Marmion and Keedy will have to work fast to find the killer before any more deaths occur...
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