The Norfolk MysteryIan SansomLabel: Fourth Estate LtdDescription: Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley’s guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England; quaint villages eccentric locals – and murder! It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where ‘intelligence is essential’ he applies. Thus begins Sefton’s association with Professor Swanton Morley an omnivorous intellect. Morley’s latest project is a history of traditional England with a guide to every county. They start in Norfolk but when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church’s bellrope Morley and Sefton find themselves drawn into a rather more fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life or was it – murder? Beginning a thrilling new detective series ‘The Norfolk Mystery’ is the first of The County Guides. A must-read for fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie every county is a crime scene and no-one is above suspicion!
