County Guides Mystery Death in Devon, Book 2, (Paperback)

from druidgirl

Marley is overbearing and really overshadows what happens in the story line and the characters to me are boring. I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

from KateVane

I've read and enjoyed a few Ian Sansom novels. Ring Road succeeded in both gently mocking and celebrating small-town life and had real poignancy. The mobile librarian cosies are light and amusing. So Death in Devon - my home county - should have been ideal for me. But the book is a real disappoin...

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The mysteries of Ian Sansom are an acquired taste. I acquired that taste by the end of the first book in his Mobile Library series, but after reading a second book in his County Guides series, “Death in Devon,” I am not there yet. Set in England in the 1930s, the series features Swanton Morley, a...

from passion4reading

Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, receives an invitation to be the guest speaker at All Souls school in Rousdon, where a friend of his is the headmaster. Sensing an opportunity to write a book on Devon in his series The County Guides, Morley, along with his assistant Stephen Sefton and his ...

from Welsh_eileen2

Professor Swanton Morley drives to Devon with 2 friends in his Lagonda on a tour of the English Riviera.Whilst there he discovers that a child who was a pupil at a school he is visiting has died in mysterious circumstances.This is Devon in its heyday of the 40's.A history lesson mixed with tales ...