3 Book Collection: The Marlow Murder Club, Death Comes to Marlow, The Queen of Poisons

The Marlow Murder Club #1-3

by Robert Thorogood

"Dans la petite ville de Marlow, en Angleterre, Judith Potts, 77 ans, mène la vie qui lui plaît. Elle boit un peu trop de whisky et se baigne toute nue dans la Tamise, et alors ? Au pays des excentriques, elle est la reine ! Un soir, elle entend, provenant de la maison de son voisin, un cri suivi d'un coup de feu. Elle en est sûre : un meurtre a été commis. Mais la police ne la croit pas. La vieille anglaise passionnée de mots-croisés va se lancer dans l'enquête avec, à ses côtés, Becks, la femme du vicaire, et Suzie, la promeneuse de chien et commère attitrée de Marlow.
Vous reprendrez bien un nuage de crime avec votre thé ?

Édition adaptée facile à lire : malvoyance ; fatigue visuelle ; troubles de l’apprentissage ; troubles cognitifs ; troubles DYS ; dyslexie ; dysgraphie ; TDA/H ; alphabétisation, FLE.
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1088 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2024

About the author

Robert Thorogood is an English screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the BBC 1 Murder Mystery Series, Death in Paradise.

Robert was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and read History at Downing College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected President in 1994. Soon after leaving Cambridge, Robert set up a theatre company that toured small theatres and schools, the highlight of which was a production of Molière's The Miser that he directed and acted in alongside Robert Webb, David Mitchell and Olivia Colman.

Robert wrote for many years - selling scripts to the BBC, ITV and independent film companies - but before 2011 the only script of his that was actually broadcast was a Radio 4 afternoon play called From Abstraction about the life of Paul Wolfskehl.

In 2008, Robert entered the inaugural Red Planet Prize and was a chosen finalist, where he was able to pitch his 'Copper in the Caribbean' idea to Tony Jordan. By 2011, when the show was finally broadcast - making it Robert's first TV broadcast credit at the age of 39 - Robert had become something of a poster boy for 'never giving up on the dream'.

In January 2014, it was announced that Robert had signed a deal with MIRA Harlequin to write three Richard Poole Murder Mystery novels, with the first being published in hardback in January 2015.