Robert Barnard - A Mansion and Its Murder.epub

Sarah Jane Fearing grew up in the imposing rural mansion of one of the great banking families of England, the only off-spring of a father who desperately wants a male heir. The center of Sarah's world is her uncle Frank, the only relative to escape the straitjacket of ponderous respectability which envelops and stifles her family. Charming, generous, Franks rebellions give Sarah delight and hope. But as Franks extravagant lifestyle leads him deeper into debt, Sarah watches him maneuvered into a disastrous marriage.Franks wedding to a coldly ambitious woman produces the longed-for male scion, but the parents fall to quarrels, and finally to murder. And Sarah is inexorably drawn into a morass that threatens the survival of her entire family.

Spanning the Belle Epoque from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, A Mansion and Its Murder holds its secrets right to the end, and proves the author's mettle as a mystery mastermind.