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Mr. Evan Pinkerton Mysteries #9
The Black Envelope: Mr. Pinkerton Again!
Mr Pinkerton discovers that murder takes no holiday!
That timid detective manqué, Evan Pinkerton, is in Brighton for the first time in fifteen years to enjoy the seashore. What he gets is foul weather — and foul play at the Royal Pavilion, where someone, probably part of her household sticks a knife in the odious, yet very wealthy, Mrs. Isom.
Coincidentally Inspector Bull is in Brighton at the time the murder takes place. Once he finds out what “take it on the lam” means, Mr. Pinkerton takes it, loses his clothes, and finally has to admit he was on the scene when the murder took place.
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Title also published as The Guilt Is Plain
That timid detective manqué, Evan Pinkerton, is in Brighton for the first time in fifteen years to enjoy the seashore. What he gets is foul weather — and foul play at the Royal Pavilion, where someone, probably part of her household sticks a knife in the odious, yet very wealthy, Mrs. Isom.
Coincidentally Inspector Bull is in Brighton at the time the murder takes place. Once he finds out what “take it on the lam” means, Mr. Pinkerton takes it, loses his clothes, and finally has to admit he was on the scene when the murder took place.
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Title also published as The Guilt Is Plain
337 pages, Hardcover
First published September 20, 1937
About the author
David Frome
45 books2 followers David Frome is the nom de plume of Zenith Jones Brown (or Zenith Brown), who also wrote as Leslie Ford.
She wrote several books under the pen-name David Frome while living in England, the most endearing of these featuring timid and elderly widower Evan Pinkerton. Her other series (also based in England) is the Major Gregory Lewis Mysteries.
She wrote several books under the pen-name David Frome while living in England, the most endearing of these featuring timid and elderly widower Evan Pinkerton. Her other series (also based in England) is the Major Gregory Lewis Mysteries.
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May 11, 2012
The Brighton pavilion is a famed tourist attraction, but timid Mr. Pinkerton meets murder when he arrives in the Grand Salon in time to see a woman with a knife in her hand standing over a dead body. As he helps his friend, Scotland Yard's Inspector Bull, look into the case, he finds mystery after mystery--but the greatest mystery has a solution that he refuses to see.
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