The Yellow Room Conspiracy
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Two ex-lovers, he merely old, she now slowly dying, have been listening to a radio quiz about a juicy political scandal in which they were both involved at the time of the Suez crisis. To his astonishment she asks her how another participant was killed. His answer startles her as much as the question had him.
Turn and turn about they start to tell each other their part in the events, re-treading the maze of high politics, espionage, sex and shady property deals until she finds the answer.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781471907593
- Author: Peter Dickinson
- Pub date: 20.12.11
- RRP: $11.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Peter Dickinson
Born in Zambia, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels. His own first two detective novels, Skin Deep and A Pride of Heroes, set a still unsurpassed record by winning the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in successive years (1968 and 1969), and his 21 crime and mystery novels have been published in several languages. Peter Dickinson is also one of the UK's most acclaimed children's writers. He has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award, as well as the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. He has been Chairman of the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2009. He lives in Hampshire, England.
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