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Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne #6
A Grave Man
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a young woman's desperate cry for help. Too late, they find Maude Pitt-Messanger's father slumped in his seat, stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger.
Verity travels to Swifts Hill, Sir Simon Castlewood's Kent estate, to investigate the murder, where she begins to discover more about Maud's the old man was selfish and cruel, and had prevented Maude from marrying the man she loved, making his daughter's life miserable.
When Maud herself is stabbed to death with a dagger from Sir Castlewood archaeological collection, Edward and Verity join forces to unmask the killer. However, Verity's growing attraction to young German aristocrat Adam von Trott drives a wedge between the two friends - bringing them both unhappiness and endangering the outcome of their investigation...
Praise for David
'A classic murder mystery [...] and a most engaging pair of amateur sleuths' Charles Osborne, author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
'A really well-crafted and charming mystery story' Daily Mail
'A perfect example of golden-age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away' Guardian
Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a young woman's desperate cry for help. Too late, they find Maude Pitt-Messanger's father slumped in his seat, stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger.
Verity travels to Swifts Hill, Sir Simon Castlewood's Kent estate, to investigate the murder, where she begins to discover more about Maud's the old man was selfish and cruel, and had prevented Maude from marrying the man she loved, making his daughter's life miserable.
When Maud herself is stabbed to death with a dagger from Sir Castlewood archaeological collection, Edward and Verity join forces to unmask the killer. However, Verity's growing attraction to young German aristocrat Adam von Trott drives a wedge between the two friends - bringing them both unhappiness and endangering the outcome of their investigation...
Praise for David
'A classic murder mystery [...] and a most engaging pair of amateur sleuths' Charles Osborne, author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
'A really well-crafted and charming mystery story' Daily Mail
'A perfect example of golden-age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away' Guardian
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
About the author
David Roberts
746 books80 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".
David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".
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August 26, 2012
It was okay. The mystery was solved a little unexpectedly, I didn't anticipate who the murderer was going to be at all.
I guess I'm a little biased because I'm reading this series backwards.. In this particular book I started to dislike Verity, though in other books I thought she was quite admirable and modest in her own way. But here, she was a bit of a bitch.
Besides that, it was quite good! The mystery was quite complex, but I liked that.
I guess I'm a little biased because I'm reading this series backwards.. In this particular book I started to dislike Verity, though in other books I thought she was quite admirable and modest in her own way. But here, she was a bit of a bitch.
Besides that, it was quite good! The mystery was quite complex, but I liked that.
May 3, 2014
It was alright, but there was so much more than a murder going on in this short amount of time, I think it was a little too jumpy and tried to focus on too many things. I don't know why, but I also had some trouble keeping some of the characters straight, could have been similar names (Maud/Maggie, Edward/Edmund) but most likely it was tiredness.
December 11, 2014
Great research on the eugenics programs of pre WWII. Verity is driving me nuts, but it's entertaining. We are so often on the cusp of making bad decisions...her belief in the whole over the individual troubles me.
July 16, 2015
Not my fav outfit in the series so far. It almost tried to accomplish too much within the story and at times felt as if it was setting things up for the next novel. Overall it was a good read and showed more of the relationship between Edward and Verity.
March 27, 2011
Very good.
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