Rennie Airth: The Death of Kings [2017] paperback For Cheap

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From the critically acclaimed author, Rennie Airth, comes the fifth John Madden mystery, The Death of Kings.
I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake s body in August 1938 . . . Since the piece could not have been stolen by the man who was hanged for Miss Blake s murder, the question arises: who else could have taken it?
And why?
1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of Portia Blake, an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time – the accused vagrant gave a written confession and was sentenced to the gallows – but in the police s haste to close the inquiry, the necklace was never recovered. Until now.
Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter s worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy . . .
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