Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Bronte sisters. Was it a clever forgery, or the literary sensation of the century?
What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.
'You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read' Publishers Weekly
'One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment' New York Times
- ISBN10 0816135908
- ISBN13 9780816135905
- Publish Date 19 July 1984 (first published 21 February 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 June 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint G. K. Hall & Company
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English