Blogs in January 1970

Cocktail Time 1st January 1970

An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off...

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The Memory of Midnight 1st January 1970

One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....

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The Mistress 1st January 1970

Muriel’s life is changed unexpectedly and forever when she meets Franz: but after many years of happiness the dream is in danger of being shattered when she discovers Franz’s first wife is guarding a mysterious, dangerous secret.

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The Retribution 1st January 1970

This is McDermid’s 25th book. Hill and Jordan are on the verge of leaving the Yorkshire city of Bradfield, where Jordan has run the major investigation team that cleared up so many serial-killer cases. Over the years, a provisional...

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Brighton Belle 1st January 1970

1951. Brighton. With the excitement of the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (retired Secret Service) thinks her skills are no longer required. After the death of her lover she moves to the...

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