The Property of Lies: A 1930s' Historical Mystery

DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls' boarding school.

1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who - or what - she claimed to be. Who was she really - and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth?

Then a pupil goes missing - and the case takes a disturbing new twist ...

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 09/01/2017
ISBN: 9780727887207
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/03/2017
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
Booklist 08/01/2017 pg. 31