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Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Brontë sisters. Was it a clever forgery, or the literary sensation of the century?

What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.

''You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read'' Publishers Weekly

''One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers'' Marcel Berlins, The Times

''Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment'' New York Times

The Missing Bronte

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 28 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9781447238683
      978-1447238683
      ISBN-10 1447238680

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Brontë sisters. Was it a clever forgery, or the literary sensation of the century?

      What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.

      ''You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read'' Publishers Weekly

      ''One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers'' Marcel Berlins, The Times

      ''Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment'' New York Times

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