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ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD IS BACK--INVESTIGATING THE STRANGE RIDDLE OF PENRICK SANDS. On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon--an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this place of picturesque streets, secluded beaches, and abandoned mines. Yet Chief Superintendent Powell soon learns that Penrick already harbors unsolved mysteries. For, thirty years ago, someone show more killed a teenager and left her body to wash up on Penrick Sands--precisely where the apparition now appears. In fact, Powell faces not one but two strangely intertwined puzzles and a double-edged sword of menace. . . . show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Malice in Cornwall
- Original publication date
- 1998
- People/Characters
- Erskine Powell
- Important places
- Penrick, Cornwall, England, UK
- Epigraph
- In my seashaken house/
On a breakneck of rocks.../
Out there, crow black, men/
Tackled with clouds.
Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue, "Collected Poems 1934-1952" - Dedication
- For Becky, Graham, and Laura. With thanks to Wendy Hindle and to Mr. Alan Harvey of Constantine Bay, Cornwall.
- First words
- The moon was large that night and so was she.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He sat down, lit a cigarette, and exhaled a cloud of smoke that settled slowly over the image like a Cornish mist.
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- Toth, Susan Allen
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