The Quiet Stranger

Thomas Brunt #5

by John Buxton Hilton

When a mysterious stranger returns to a mill town after a lengthy absence, young police constable Brunt becomes involved in a bizarre murder case, in a tale of revenge, passion, and mystery set in Victorian England

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

John Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.

He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.

Reviews

[Raymond Rockwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

JBH takes readers through rural 19th century
England, as various police officers contest
with inhospitable locals (and often with each other)to ferret out felons. Despite stonewalls literal and figurative, murder will out. For mystery fans and lovers of our
language, period-pieces don't get much better.