The death of kings / Rennie Airth ; read by Peter Wickham.
By: Airth, Rennie.
Contributor(s): Wickham, Peter.
Series: Airth, Rennie, John Madden: 5.Publisher: Oxford : Isis, 2018Description: 12 sound discs (CD) (ca. 13 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781407972985; 1407972987.Subject(s): Madden, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Ex-police officers -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Read by Peter Wickham.Summary: 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 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 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?.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Audiobooks | Newton-le-Willows Library Talking Book | Available | 38055013250428 |
Complete and unabridged.
Soundings CD.
Read by Peter Wickham.
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 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 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?.
Adult.