The Witness on the RoofA Golden Age Mystery【電子書籍】[ Annie Haynes ]

The Witness on the RoofA Golden Age Mystery【電子書籍】[ Annie Haynes ]

<p><em>Glancing at her more closely, he noticed dark stains on her white gown. Horror-struck, he bent over her for a moment, and realised that it was unmistakably a corpse.</em></p> <p>Little Polly Spencer liked to visit her hiding place up on the London rooftops, to escape a scolding or worse from her stepmother. Peeping through a studio window, she sees what looks like a burglary. But signs of robbery are merely a cover for murder - and the young figure on the roof seemingly the only witness to the crime.</p> <p>Polly is sent to live with her well-born mother’s family, her secret kept from the police. More than a decade later, she has become Lady Warchester, the wife of a wealthy titled manーyet, in a world utterly removed from her childhood, she will finally face the pale-faced killer she glimpsed through the window all those years ago. And the danger of having seen too much is about to become acute…</p> <p><em>The Witness on the Roof</em> (1925) is a classic of early golden age crime fiction. This new edition, the first in over eighty years, features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.</p> <p>“Miss Haynes has a sense of character; her people are vivid and not the usual puppets of detective fiction.” <em>New Statesman</em></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。

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