WHITECHURCH, Victor L.; Murder At The Pageant c1930 | 1st Edition
Title
MURDER AT THE PAGEANT
Author
Victor L. WHITECHURCH
Published
London: c1930
The Crime Club Ltd By W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Format
Hardcover | Cloth
Signed
Condition
Book: Fair | DJ: No DJ
Provenance
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Description and Condition
Description
Hardcover | Cloth. Green cloth. Language: English. Size: 19 cm by 12.5 cm.
Book Condition
Fair
Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Short tears to upper and lower spine end edges. Sunned spine and margins. Lightly rubbed, discoloured and soiled cloth. Tightly bound with spotted intact endpapers and strong hinges. Spotting to prelims and rear pages with continued spotting to most page margins. Prev owners name in pencil to front paste down. Spotted text block edges.
Dust Jacket Condition
No DJ
Notes
Resume
A thriller from the golden age of British crime fiction. A pageant at a country house suddenly goes wrong when a murder is committed. Everyone present is a possible suspect! One of the guests is a former secret service agent so he is more than helpful in assisting the police to eventually uncover the perpetrator of the crime.
Author
Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) educated at Chichester Grammar School and Chichester Theological College. He held various positions as curate before he became vicar of St. Michael's, Blewbury in 1904. In 1913 he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and an honorary canon of Christ Church and in 1918 he became Rural Dean of Aylesbury. He began his writing career with religious works but wrote HIS first quasi-detective novel in 1904 when 'The Canon in Residence'. He contributed detective stories to the Strand Magazine, the Railway Magazine and Pearson's and Harmsworth's Magazines. Some of his railway stories were published as 'Thrilling Stories of the Railway' in 1912, 15 stories in all, nine of which feature his specialist in railway detection, Thorpe Hazell. He returned to thrillers with 'The Templeton Case', 1924, and another collection of short stories on a railway and spy theme, 'The Adventures of Captain Ivan Koravitch' in 1925. H devoted his final years almost solely to detective fiction, writing four further such novels between 1927 and 1932, the last of them 'Murder at the College'.
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