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The Death of Kings by Rennie Airth

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The Death of Kings

Author
Rennie Airth
Narrator
Peter Wickham
Publisher
Soundings
Publish Date
1 January 2018
Run Time
10 hours 59 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Historical crime and mysteries

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1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time – the accused vagrant gave a written confession and was sentenced to the gallows – but the necklace was never recovered. Until now. Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter's worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy…

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Author
Rennie Airth
Narrator
Peter Wickham
Duration
10 hours 59 minutes
Release Date
1 January 2018
ISBN
9781407973005
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Soundings
Genre
Historical crime and mysteries

Synopsis

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time – the accused vagrant gave a written confession and was sentenced to the gallows – but the necklace was never recovered. Until now. Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter's worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy…

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