These days, retired professor Donald Aitcheson spends his time doing whatever he pleases – driving through the English countryside, exploring small villages and dipping into whatever used bookstores he can find. On one such outing, he chances upon a collection of Robert Browning's poetry with an inscription that uses lines from 'Porphyria's Lover' to threaten the book's original recipient.
Perhaps this note was only a joke made in poor taste; still, something about its tone captivates Aitcheson's otherwise unoccupied mind, and leads him to a remote boarding school to investigate. But when what starts as a harmless game of detective comes too close to a deadly truth, Aitcheson finds himself face-to-face with a killer, and learns that some pages are best left unturned...
- ISBN10 1788541928
- ISBN13 9781788541923
- Publish Date 18 December 2018 (first published 13 March 2018)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Head of Zeus
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 94
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/