John William Wainwright
Autore di All on a Summer's Day
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Author John William Wainwright was born in 1921. During World War II, he served as a rear gunner. Afterwards, he worked as a policeman in Yorkshire for twenty years. He wrote eighty novels between 1965 and 1992. Wainwright published 78 crime novels, a short-story collection and four non-fiction mostra altro works, including two autobiographical volumes, Tail-End Charlie and Wainwright's Beat; a career guide, Shall I Be a Policeman? (1967), and a home security handbook, Guard Your Castle. One of his most popular novels is Brainwash (1977), upon which the movies Garde à vue and Under Suspicion (2000 film) are based. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Jack Ripley. He passed away in September 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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This is a story about a series of interviews between Detective Chief Inspector Lyle and small town pharmacist Herbert Grantley. He says he poisoned his wife a year before and Lyle is trying to uncover the why of it all. Each interview reveals more of the story, but each contains deviations on the “truth”, especially when dealing with the couple’s estranged daughter. Grantley was never the affectionate husband his wife had wanted and over the years, especially after the successful return of their kidnapped 19-year old daughter.
This is a tale of a marriage under strain, but there is more and the ending, which I refuse to reveal, is well worth the wait.… (altro)