Blogs in January 1970

Death in Holy Orders 1st January 1970

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known – the classic English detective story. The story is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate...

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The Missing Italian Girl 1st January 1970

In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two...

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The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone) 1st January 1970

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are...

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Becoming Josephine 1st January 1970

Rose Tascher is brought up in Martinique. At 15, she is married off to a Parisian aristocrat, who cannot stand her or her provincial ways. She divorces him, the French Revolution comes and her place, as Josephine, consort to...

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Tide of Death 1st January 1970

It is DI Andy Horton’s second day back in Portsmouth CID after being suspended for eight months. Whilst out running in the early morning he trips over the battered, naked body of a man. PC Evans has been stabbed...

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