Someone from the Past : A London Mystery : 120

Author: Bennett, Margot

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Published on 10 December 2023 by British Library Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of 'the British Library Crime Classics' series.

Paperback | 256 pages
130 x 189 x 22 | 236g

Then I felt his warm hand grow cold, it was as if he had been reminded of death. He wasnt looking at me any more, but obliquely, across the restaurant. I turned round.Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters, seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co-worker Nancy, Sarah is found shot in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Hearing the news and desperate to clear any evidence of Donalds presence at the scene due to her own infatuations, Nancy finds herself as the key suspect when she is discovered in the apartment.

As the real killer uses the situation to their advantage, Bennett crafts a tense and nuanced story through flashbacks to Sarahs life and loves in this Gold-Dagger-award-winning, Hitchcockian story of deceit and murder.