Name: The Ghost It Was von Richard Hull
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The Ghost It Was Zusammenfassung

The Ghost It Was Richard Hull

Richard Hull's classic crime novel, The Ghost It Was, find four nephews fighting for their superstitious uncle's fortune. But when a harmless prank turns deadly, everyone is a suspect - even the ghost.

He seemed as if he might be interesting. People with no morals often are, and someone who makes no pretence of having any always is.
A convert to the recent fad of 'spiritualism', James Warrenton purchases the old, and purportedly haunted, Amberhurst Place. A cantankerous, yet easily amused, old man, he has far too many nephews, and far too much time.
Suspecting his family of only ever wanting his fortune, James strikes up a bet for his own entertainment with his nephews on the existence of ghosts.
Desperate to get into their uncle's good graces, or at least not irritate him further, his four nephews vie for the place as prime heir to James' estate.
Snide comments and ruthless remarks volley around Amberhurst, but when a harmless prank turns deadly, everyone is a suspect - even the ghost.

The Ghost It Was was first published in 1936.

PRAISE FOR RICHARD HULL & THE GHOST IT WAS

'Amusing and exciting; the secret is well kept and the detective is certainly original.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'Required reading' - Saturday Review of Literature

'A model for mystery writers' - The New Yorker

'utterly original' - John Cournos

'well worth reading' - Isaac Anderson, New York Times

'how delightfully witty Mr. Hull can be' - Charles Hannon Towne, NY American

'Most assured... splendid writing' - New York Sunday News

The Ghost It Was Bewertungen

'The plot is quite good, intriguing and humorous'

-- Goodreads Reviewer

'a classic British mystery, with elegant writing'

-- Goodreads Reviewer

'This is one of the best mysteries I've read in a long while.'

-- Goodreads Reviewer

'Hull's style is lighthearted, and his plots delightfully mystifying.'

-- Goodreads Reviewer

Über Richard Hull

Richard Hull was born Richard Henry Sampson in London on 6 September 1896 to Nina Hull and S.A. Sampson, and attended Rugby School, Warwickshire. When the First World War broke out, his uncle helped him secure a commission in the Queen Victoria's Rifles. At the end of the war, after three years in France, he returned to England and worked as an accountant.

His first book, The Murder of My Aunt , written under the pseudonym Richard Hull, was published in 1934. The novel, set in Dysserth, Welshpool, is known for its humour, narrative charm and unexpected twists. Hull moved into full-time writing in 1934 and wrote a further fourteen novels over the span of his career.

During the Second World War, he became an auditor with the Admiralty in London, a position he retained for eighteen years until he retired in 1958. While he stopped writing detective fiction after 1953, Hull continued to take an interest in the affairs for the Detection Club, assisting Agatha Christie with her duties as President. He died in 1973.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR010210945

ISBN 13

9781912194742

ISBN 10

1912194740

Titel

The Ghost It Was Richard Hull

Autor

Richard Hull

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Agora Books

Datum

20181012

Anzahl der Seiten

226

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