The Bell That Never Rang

di Deep88 (Autore)

Deep88, 2026

The eleventh of November, 1925. In a Cotswold village that has spent two years arguing about a clock, a man goes to bed with a headache and does not wake, and every hour in the parish is wrong. Letty Vaughan runs the Little Aldwyn telephone board from a shelf of stamps in the Post Office, and she knows something the courts do not: the board's clock has been twelve minutes fast since the day the tower stopped striking. The dead man knew it too. He had been timing the village by the six Greenwich pips, in pencil, on a card, and by the morning the card is missing and so is the hour everyone has been swearing by. There are eleven names on the parish's debt card and a word in a dead man's hand against one of them. A landlord with a hot-water jug, a doctor in a hurry to go home, a verger who has kept a secret since the spring, an eleven-year-old who heard music in a house that owns no instrument, and a man at a bar who said hurry up into a live wire at an hour nobody can agree on. Alfred Kittery is tried for it at the spring assize at Gloucester, on a case with no poison test, no weapon and no witness who is lying. It is the sort of evidence a parish believes. A fair-play mystery in which every clue is on the page before it matters, and the trick is not what hour it was, but what hour the dead man thought it was. Book Two of the Little Aldwyn mysteries; the village, the board and the bell are all back, and nothing has been mended that a second book could make worse.

• Autore: Deep88
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Deep88
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237452952