Octavius Gaye, founder of a successful magazine empire saw himself as the original ‘plain man’. The truth was rather different. Gaye was an unscrupulous tycoon who surrounded himself with a series of weak-willed puppets that he manipulated. One such was Francie Lake and as the plot unfolds, Symons reveals how and why Francie simply had to die.
... HOUSE OF STRATUS CRIME/SUSPENSE THE 31ST OF FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE ...
A new school with new friends (and a few enemies), a lead role in a play, an encounter with a giant muskie, archaeological twists, secret tunnels, thin ice, and a strangely sticky murder are all coming her way in The Clue in the Trees.
The Killing of Francie Lake also shows that there is a way up as well as a way down . The novel is a chronicle of the fall of media tycoon Octavius Gaye and the rise to personhood of Boy Kirton . This double action plot dramatizes the ...
... OF FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED ...
... FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE THE MAN WHO KILLED HIMSELF THE MAN WHO LOST ...
... OF FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED ...
... OF FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED HIMSELF THE MAN WHO ...
... OF FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED ...
... CRIME/SUSPENSE THE 31ST OF FEBRUARY BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE GIGANTIC SHADOW THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED ...
... FEBRUARY THE BELTING INHERITANCE BLAND BEGINNINGS THE BROKEN PENNY THE COLOUR OF MURDER THE END OF SOLOMON GRUNDY THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE THE KILLING OF FRANCIE LAKE A MAN CALLED JONES THE MAN WHO KILLED HIMSELF THE MAN WHO LOST ...