Blood on the Wood
When the suffragette movement is bequeathed a valuable painting by campaigner Philomena Venn, suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray agrees to retrieve it. The plan is simple: Collect the picture from Philomena's widower, Oliver, take it to Christie's, and sell it to raise much-needed funds. But Nell is in for a surprise when she returns from the Vennes' home in the Cotswolds: The painting he has given her is a fake!
When Oliver refuses to hand over the real painting, his son, political activist Daniel Venn, suggests an alternative plan to Nell: Why doesn't she break into the house and switch the paintings? Against her better judgment she agrees, and in the process she uncovers a far more serious crime — -a brutal murder in which she is now personally embroiled...
Once again, Gillian Linscott guides her delightfully starchy heroine through the politics, personalities, and perils of early twentieth-century England.
- Author
- Gillian Linscott
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- Series
- Nell Bray
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-312-33148-1
- EAN
- 9780312331481
- Genres
- mystery
- Release date
- 2004
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