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Brought to Light (Bobby Owen #32) by E R Punshon (August/Sept 25)
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Another very enjoyable book from this author. This is about a missing heir who went to America ten years previously due to a scandal in England. His family having heard nothing from him had assumed he was dead until he turns up claiming his position. Many of the family believe this man to be an imposter, but the head of the family, who was the grandfather accepted this man, along with his wife, and so the man takes up the position. This causes a lot of bad feeling among the family, especially be
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3.5 stars. Bobby Owen has started in his new role as private secretary to the Chief Police Constable in Wych county and the first murder crime involves the local Duke and his family where a claimant to the title has unexpectedly arrived to upset the current arrangements. Soon Bobby is trying to identify a murderer, but it turns out he will also have to establish who it the legal successor to the title. An interesting plot, although you have to suspend some believe that the family cannot identify
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A very amusing visit with Bobby Owen as Punshon pokes fun at inconsistencies of government policy and the duties of an earldom.
This mystery is about the sudden appearance after 10 years of an heir who was thought dead and all of the complications & jealousies, not to mention murder that this causes since the grandparents accept him while others think he is an imposter.
...that Ralph's self-control might slip, as indeed whose might not under such a blow that reduced him in one moment from the position of heir to a title and great estates to that of the poor relation dependent entirely on a rich cousin's bounty. ...more
...that Ralph's self-control might slip, as indeed whose might not under such a blow that reduced him in one moment from the position of heir to a title and great estates to that of the poor relation dependent entirely on a rich cousin's bounty. ...more
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