A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse Mystery)

by Ellis Peters

Book Overview

First time in paperback in the USA, this classic Detective Chief Inspector George Felse mystery has Felse leaving his family at the seaside to visit a tiny, Saxon cemetery, where an ancient crypt... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446400696
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable... and touching

An old mystery is used to confuse the evidence in a new crime, and when it is all sorted out we are left with three human tragedies. One of the author's most endearing traits is that her victims are never cardboard cutouts; they are as real as any of the living characters, and their loss directly impacts the people around them. At the very least: a good read.

A Nice Little Mystery Puzzler!

This entry in the George Felse series is well-worth a read. In it we see the Felse family on vacation at the seaside. The action of the book takes place over a six day period, but in that time they find evidence of smuggling, a missing body in a family crypt and two murders. (one from about 3 years ago and one most recent). The weird thing about these two murder victims is that their bodies are found in an old family crypt in a stone coffin that is actually minus the original body that was supposed to be there. It's a nice little puzzler that has two or three plot strands running through it. These separate strands do meet up together in the end though, and the mysteries are solved. Great story.