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The dead of winter / Jane A. Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Adams, Jane, Rina Martin mystery ; 5. | Adams, Jane, Rina Martin mystery ; Publication details: Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House, 2011.Edition: First world editionDescription: 203 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780727880345 (cased) :
  • 9781847513526 (trade pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR6051.D3367 D43 2011
Summary: Against her better judgement, Rina Martin accepts an invitation to a country house hotel with a sinister reputation and looks forward to leaving when she is joined by DI MacGregor, but a blizzard prevents their departure and then Edwin Holmes, grand old man of psychic research, is found murdered in his bed.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection ADA 1 Available T00525257
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Rina Martin Mystery - Against her better judgement, Rina Martin accepts an invitation to Aikensthorpe, a country house hotel with a sinister reputation. Gathered there are a collection of experts in the esoteric; their plan is to re-enact the incident in 1872 that left one man dead and another mad. Rina, unimpressed by the company and their techniques, is relieved when her friend DI MacGregor comes to rescue her. But then a blizzard traps them in the house, and Edwin Holmes, grand old man of psychical research, is found murdered in his bed . . .

Against her better judgement, Rina Martin accepts an invitation to a country house hotel with a sinister reputation and looks forward to leaving when she is joined by DI MacGregor, but a blizzard prevents their departure and then Edwin Holmes, grand old man of psychic research, is found murdered in his bed.

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Publishers Weekly Review

In Adams's stately fifth entry in her series featuring Rina Martin, a retired actress who once played a Miss Marple-like role on TV (after 2010's Resolutions), Rina accompanies her young friend Tim Brandon, a professional stage magician, and his fiancee, Joy Duggan, to historic Aikensthorpe House in rural Devon for a weekend conference on Tim's field. Rina stays afterward with the couple to attend a re-enactment of a seance held at Aikensthorpe in 1872. The slow-burning story line finally kicks in with the murder of the conference's luminary, psychic researcher Edwin Holmes. The tension rises as a winter blizzard prevents the guests' departure and delays the police's arrival. Despite the initial leaden pacing and some less than compelling flashbacks to Aikensthorpe's troubled past, Agatha Christie fans should enjoy this contemporary homage to the traditional English country house mystery. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Rina Martin (A Reason to Kill, 2008) accepts an invitation to accompany her protege, Tim, and his fiancee, Joy, to a conference at an isolated country estate. Tim, a magician, is excited about plans to reenact an 1872 event that left one person dead, drove another mad, and turned a third into a recluse. Rina and Joy are not impressed by the crew of experts gathered for the presentation. Their worries intensify when a blizzard cuts the estate off from the rest of the world, and Edwin Holmes, the great expert on psychic research, turns up murdered in his bed. This is a classic locked-room British cozy that will appeal to M. C. Beaton fans.--Bibel, Barbara Copyright 2010 Booklist

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