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Malice in Cornwall: An Erskine Powell Mystery (Erskine Powell Mysteries)
by: Graham Thomas

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780804116565
ISBN: 0804116563
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: June 28, 1998
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Sales Rank: 530926
Studio: Fawcett

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Product Description:
ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD IS BACK--INVESTIGATING THE STRANGE RIDDLE OF PENRICK SANDS.

On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon--an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this place of picturesque streets, secluded beaches, and abandoned mines. Yet Chief Superintendent Powell soon learns that Penrick already harbors unsolved mysteries. For, thirty years ago, someone killed a teenager and left her body to wash up on Penrick Sands--precisely where the apparition now appears. In fact, Powell faces not one but two strangely intertwined puzzles and a double-edged sword of menace. . . .

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- If you're a fan of M.C.Beaton...
You will probably appreciate this authors prose, but will realize this is not the easy, light-hearted engrossing read the Hamish McBeth and Agatha Raisin series are. But, the story is intriguing, once you get into the book. If you do wish to read this, be careful of a prior review; it just about tells the entire plot. NOT appreciated !

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- If you like Inspector Morse...
Malice in Cornwall reads much like the Inspector Morse or Wexford TV mysteries. Rather than an opera loving Morse, Graham Thomas has created Erskine Powell and his sidekick Detective-Sgt. Black who banter literary quotations back and forth. The Black character comes across as amusing. Powell isn't quite there yet - as a character, I mean. I don't think he has a personality strong enough for a series.

The mystery is straight forward. Plenty of digressions on Cornwall and the food Powell and Black are served. Is this a good thing or not?

The final paragraph was quite good. But I won't quote it here.

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- English cozy takes on Cornish ambiance
I picked up this delightful mystery on a whim based on the quote by Susan Allen Toth (the engaging author of "My Love Affair with England") on the flyleaf. Graham Thomas draws his quaint and quirky local Cornish characters with a fine hand, and seems to be developing a fascinating, if all-too-human protagonist in Scotland Yard's Erskine Powell. As for locale, you can feel the rising damp on every page. Well done, I say. I look forward to more development of Chief Inspector Powell as well as more colorful locations.

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- A first rate mystery
With the tin mining industry going elsewhere and the fishing industry near death, the residents of Cornwall depend on tourism to support their lifestyles. The town of Penrick Sands is the typical Cornwall town except they have a problem that drives tourists away. Every evening, a headless and armless torso illuminates the night skies only to disappear a few minutes later.

The local constabulary has been unable to obtain any answers to the puzzle. New Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell and his assistant Detective Sargent William Black are assigned to the investigation. Although they find the torso washed up on the beach, they have no idea who is behind the body's continued reappearance. While they continue their inquiries, they learn that a teenager was murdered thirty years ago with killer never caught. Similarities between the two cases exist. As the police officers get closer ... Read More

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