The Long-Case Corpse

di Rosamund E. Vale (Autore)

Coralia Publishing, 2026

It stopped short when the old man died. That's what the song says. It is February in Stellbridge, under the South Downs: snowdrops by the Brooks, lambs on the hills, and on Otty Tolhurst's workbench a long-case clock whose trunk door nobody has opened in sixty years. When she opens it she finds a sealed letter with a fourpenny stamp, addressed in a boy's careful capitals to the police. Greville Ockenden of Wychcombe House is seventy-four, courteous, a little sad and very glad to have his clock back. His house has set its hall clock by a line of brass on the floor and the noon sun for two hundred years. Two days after Otty sets it to the world's time instead, he is found in his chair beside it, and the clock has stopped at twenty past eleven. A frail man with a bad heart: natural causes, says his doctor. Just like the song, says the town. But Otty wound that clock herself, and a clock in good order does not stop on its own. Somebody was with him at twenty past eleven, and stopped it by hand, and has not said so. Everyone who was in the house that night can say exactly when they left. Only the clock can say when he died, and somebody made sure it would say nothing else. The Long-Case Corpse is the third Stellbridge Clockmaker Mystery: a warm, witty, fairly clued British cosy with a manor under the Downs, a noon mark on a hall floor, lambing nights and a big February moon, a stationmaster who keeps time for a living, a one-legged jackdaw with opinions about everybody, the night the clocks go forward, and absolutely no gore. A traditional cosy mystery: no gore, no on-page violence, no explicit content.

• Autore: Rosamund E. Vale
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Coralia Publishing
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237447262