Sepulchre Street

by Martin Edwards

Series: Rachel Savernake (4)

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London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as 'the Queen of Surrealism', is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out. There is a cry and the blade falls. Damaris has executed herself. It is now left to Rachel to question why Damaris would take her own life - and just what she meant by 'solve my murder'.… (more)

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London 1931. Artist Damaris Gethin at an art exhibition in the Hades Gallery, asked Rachel Savernake to solve her murder, then she kills herself in front of the invited guests. Meanwhile, Jacob Flint, crime reporter, for The Clarion is interested in socialite Mrs Kiki de Villiers, someone with a murky past and connected to gangsters. Together there will soon be other deaths to investigate.
An entertaining historical thriller and mystery, written in the style of 'The Golden Age'. Another good addition to this enjoyable series with its varied and interesting characters. (

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London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as 'the Queen of Surrealism', is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out. There is a cry and the blade falls. Damaris has executed herself. It is now left to Rachel to question why Damaris would take her own life - and just what she meant by 'solve my murder'.

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