An edition of A Blunt Instrument (1938)

A blunt instrument

Large print ed.
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An edition of A Blunt Instrument (1938)

A blunt instrument

Large print ed.
  • 3.2 (6 ratings) ·
  • 43 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

Looking for a common factor in two murder cases Inspector Hannasyde notices that in both crimes the murder weapon has been hidden with extraordinary ingenuity. But there is another common factor which escapes observation for some time, and which gives the cases a most grotesque twist.

Publish Date
Publisher
Chivers
Language
English
Pages
331

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Cover of: A blunt instrument
A blunt instrument
2009, Chivers
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: A Blunt Instrument
A Blunt Instrument
May 23, 2006, Arrow
in English
Cover of: A Blunt Instrument
A Blunt Instrument
January 1, 2001, House of Stratus
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: A blunt instrument
A blunt instrument
1982, Granada
in English
Cover of: A blunt instrument.
A blunt instrument.
1970, Dutton
in English
Cover of: A blunt instrument
A blunt instrument
1966, Bantam Books
Paperback in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.

Published in
Bath

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.912

The Physical Object

Pagination
331 pages (large print)
Number of pages
331

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32081560M
Internet Archive
bluntinstrument0000heye_k1i4
ISBN 10
1405645547, 1405645555
ISBN 13
9781405645546, 9781405645553
OCLC/WorldCat
297802417

Work Description

Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #4

Who would kill the perfect gentleman?

When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him? Inspectors of Scotland Yard felt it was an unlikely crime for the London suburbs: a perfectly respectable chap at home with his head bashed in. It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in fact, no shortage of people who wanted him dead.

Superintendent Hannasyde and Sergeant Hemingway, with consummate skill, uncover one dirty little secret after another, and with them, a host of people who all have reasons for wanting Fletcher dead. Who tiptoed into the study to do the deed? The rather nefarious nephew Neville? A neighbor's wandering wife? A fat man in a bowler hat?

The mystery's key was a blunt instrument--a weapon that the police could not find... and that the murderer can to use once more. Then, a second murder is committed, with striking similarities to the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case, and the inspectors realize they are up against a killer on a mission....

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