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DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls' boarding school. 1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who - or what - she claimed to be. Who was she really - and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth? Then a pupil goes missing - and the case takes a disturbing new twist ...

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Author

Marjorie Eccles

Publisher

Severn House Publishers, Limited

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780727887207

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.63 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13