The corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness / Malcolm Pryce.
Momo rauemi: TextSeries: Pryce, Malcolm, Case files of Jack Wenlock, railway detective ; nook 2.Kaiwhakaputa: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020Whakaahuatanga: 371 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781408895290
- 1408895293
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Wenlock, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Newlyweds -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Railroad travel -- Thailand -- Fiction
- British -- Thailand -- Fiction
- Thailand -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China) -- Fiction
- 823.92 23
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Suspense | Manaia LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PRYC (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2203255 |
It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock – the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak. But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth. But if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them.
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