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A portrait of Barbara
It is the summer of 1891 and a young, beautiful bride is snatched from her wedding, leaving her guests shocked and her new husband distraught. A search is hurriedly mounted, but as each minute passes the trail grows colder. In angry desperation they turn to Scotland Yard.
In Victorian London, Detective Inspector Solomon Dearborn has been crumbling under the failures of the Jack the Ripper investigation. Reluctantly he and his young assistant, Detective Sergeant Sparrowhawk, turn their attention to the missing Somerset bride. The crux of this mystery, though, is that it has all happened before . . .
From Fleet Street to the moors, Dearborn and Sparrowhawk endeavour to find the truth behind this dark and difficult crime.
In Victorian London, Detective Inspector Solomon Dearborn has been crumbling under the failures of the Jack the Ripper investigation. Reluctantly he and his young assistant, Detective Sergeant Sparrowhawk, turn their attention to the missing Somerset bride. The crux of this mystery, though, is that it has all happened before . . .
From Fleet Street to the moors, Dearborn and Sparrowhawk endeavour to find the truth behind this dark and difficult crime.
183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Robin Squire
14 books6 followersNovelist and screenwriter Robin Squire began life as an office equipment salesman - but found he spent more time dreaming up story ideas than actually selling anything. The publication by W.H. Allen & Co. of his first novel Square One led to a stint at BBC TV in London as script editor.
A Portrait Of Barbara, his second novel, was published by St. Martin’s Press in New York and Sphere Books in England. A revised edition retitled The Mystery of the Stolen Brides: An Inspector Dearborn Case was published in August 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group.
The Making of a Britflick (Tagman Press, 2012), is a reality novel in diary form, about, among other things, how not to make a movie.
Robin's contemporary romantic novella, Lavender Days: Love in Provence was published by Greenwave Editions in 2013.
Robin's reminiscences of the Sixties, including his stints in the BBC's Doctor Who script department were published under the title The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy (Greenwave Editions, eBook 2014, print edition February 2015).
His first film was The Lion’s Share, directed by Norman Cohen. Robin has a small number of Screenplays awaiting film makers of vision, including Grain Of Sand about the Free French Brigade's incredibly courageous battle for Bir Hakeim in 1942 against Rommel's Afrika Korps.
Robin has been an infantry soldier in the British Army, house-cleaner, bingo steward, magazine journalist, car- jockey, security guard, ditch-digger, copy-editor, and once sold encyclopaedias door to door. He was also a Doctor Who monster (an Auton) in Jon Pertwee's first outing as the Time Lord, and remembers those times with much relish and affection, occasionally participating at signings for Doctor Who enthusiasts. Robin has two lovely daughters and currently lives in Hertfordshire.
A Portrait Of Barbara, his second novel, was published by St. Martin’s Press in New York and Sphere Books in England. A revised edition retitled The Mystery of the Stolen Brides: An Inspector Dearborn Case was published in August 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group.
The Making of a Britflick (Tagman Press, 2012), is a reality novel in diary form, about, among other things, how not to make a movie.
Robin's contemporary romantic novella, Lavender Days: Love in Provence was published by Greenwave Editions in 2013.
Robin's reminiscences of the Sixties, including his stints in the BBC's Doctor Who script department were published under the title The Life and Times of a Doctor Who Dummy (Greenwave Editions, eBook 2014, print edition February 2015).
His first film was The Lion’s Share, directed by Norman Cohen. Robin has a small number of Screenplays awaiting film makers of vision, including Grain Of Sand about the Free French Brigade's incredibly courageous battle for Bir Hakeim in 1942 against Rommel's Afrika Korps.
Robin has been an infantry soldier in the British Army, house-cleaner, bingo steward, magazine journalist, car- jockey, security guard, ditch-digger, copy-editor, and once sold encyclopaedias door to door. He was also a Doctor Who monster (an Auton) in Jon Pertwee's first outing as the Time Lord, and remembers those times with much relish and affection, occasionally participating at signings for Doctor Who enthusiasts. Robin has two lovely daughters and currently lives in Hertfordshire.
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