Author |
: Robert Barnard |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2013-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476737300 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476737304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Scandal in Belgravia by : Robert Barnard
Download or read book A Scandal in Belgravia written by Robert Barnard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder pays no respect to rank...or the neighborhood. And so it happened that young aristocrat Timothy Wycliffe was bludgeoned to death in his elegantly furnished flat in Belgravia by a person or persons unknown. Unknown, in fact, for thirty years. When the dead man’s friend Peter Proctor, once a young man on his way up in the diplomatic service, now a retired Member of Parliament, seeks an antidote to boredom by attempting to write his own memoirs they create more problems than he anticipated, and not just of the writer’s-block variety. Peter keeps getting sidetracked by speculations on Timothy’s death. The murder was allegedly accomplished by a beating from one of his boyfriends. But Peter can’t accept so simple a solution, so he begins to probe the past. In so doing, he opens a fascinating window on British society during the 1950s and its changing, and unchanging, mores since.