Product Description
As head of the Criminal Studies department at the University of Wessex, Doctor Tudor Cornwall has murder on his mind. One violent death that has always bothered him is the killing of Alec d'Urberville in the Thomas Hardy novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles". He concedes that the book may be great literature but thinks it makes a rotten whodunit and therefore decides to rewrite it in the style of Hardy's contemporary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This task is complicated by a real-life contemporary murder that bears some uncanny resemblances to the nineteenth century fiction. With the help of his brilliant young postgraduate favourite, Elizabeth Burney, Doctor Cornwall sets about unravelling these two parallel mysteries. And comes to some startling conclusions!
About the Author
Tim Heald is an ex-chair of the Crime Writer's Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the editor of several anthologies and the Folio Society's four-volume selection of all-time great crime stories. Robert Hale also published his previous Doctor Tudor Cornwall mystery, Death And the Visiting Fellow. Tim Heald lives in Cornwall.
