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Old patriarch, Adam Penhallow, yet ruling his family and his Cornish roost with an iron hand from his sickbed. The death of menacing old man, on the eve of his birthday, seems at first to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasn't well liked. Tyrannical Penhallow had ruled over his estate with an iron will and sharp tongue, playing one relative against another. He was so bad tempered and mean that both servants and kin cause to hate him for his cruel and vicious nature. It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered,…

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Editions

22 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Arrow · 352 pages · 9780099493686
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    House of Stratus · 392 pages · 9780755108961
  • Hardcover · English · 1991
    Chivers · 432 pages · 9780745173108
  • Hardcover · English · 1980
    Amereon Ltd · 298 pages · 9780891906469
  • Other · English · 2019
    Sourcebooks, Incorporated · 528 pages · 9781492677215
  • Other · English · 2010
    Sourcebooks, Incorporated · 9781282166172
1940sContemporaryCrimes againstFictionHeads of householdsSuspenseUpper class familiesFiction, general