The Marx sisters: a Brock and Kolla Mystery
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Kathy Kolla and David Brock mysteries volume 1.
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Kathy Kolla's first case is one for the books. Something isn't quite right about the death of Meredith Winterbottom, an elderly woman who was living with her two sisters. The sisters - who happen to be the great-granddaughters of Karl Marx - reside in a charming Dickensian section of London called Jerusalem Lane, surrounded by a collection of old books and odd neighbors - mainly refugees who fled war-torn Central Europe during the tumultuous 1930s.Was the septuagenarian Winterbottom "liquidated" by a property developer hoping to gentrify the area? Or have some of the ghosts of the World War I remained unexercised, leaving neighbors who aren't so neighborly? Would a scholar of Marxiania kill for Meredith's collection of unpublished Marx correspondence? Or did her unhappily married son wish to receive his inheritance sooner rather than later? And what exactly is Brock investigating: Winterbottom's death or Kathy herself?
Subjects
Subjects
Brock, David (Fictitious character)
Brock, David (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Electronic books
Family
Fiction
Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character)
Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Marx, Karl
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883 -- Family -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery fiction
Older women
Older women -- Fiction
Police
Police -- England -- London -- Fiction
Policewomen
Policewomen -- Fiction
Sisters
Sisters -- Fiction
Brock, David (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Electronic books
Family
Fiction
Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character)
Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Marx, Karl
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883 -- Family -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery fiction
Older women
Older women -- Fiction
Police
Police -- England -- London -- Fiction
Policewomen
Policewomen -- Fiction
Sisters
Sisters -- Fiction
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9781934609316
9781611456028
9781628723908
9781611456028
9781628723908
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display_description | This first book in the Brock and Kolla Mystery series was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Award for best first mystery and met with wide acclaim. It introduced the team of Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, with Kathy a neophyte to Scotland Yard. And her first case was one for the books. Meredith Winterbottom, a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx and a longtime resident of Jerusalem Lane-a Dickensian section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants-is found dead in her apartment. Along with her two sisters and other Lane residents, she had been seeing red over a real estate developer's plan to gentrify their neighborhood. Six months after Meredith's death, a second sister is murdered. Are they victims of money-hungry developers or were they killed for the politics of another age? And why would David Brock, a notorious curmudgeon, assign himself to help Kathy on a relatively small case? As Kathy and Brock delve into the Lane's eccentric melting pot, they find unknown letters from Marx to Engels, a possible fourth volume of Das Kapital, a long list of suspects ranging from Meredith's shady son to a Princeton professor and a Polish veteran of World War II-and a plot to make Kathy's first case her last. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction-novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Kathy Kolla and David Brock mysteries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Brock, David (Fictitious character) Brock, David (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Electronic books Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883 -- Family -- Fiction Mystery fiction Older women -- Fiction Police -- England -- London -- Fiction Policewomen -- Fiction Sisters -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The Marx sisters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Marx Sisters : a Brock and Kolla Mystery [electronic resource] Maitland, Barry. The Marx Sisters The Marx sisters / Barry Maitland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Marx sisters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a Brock and Kolla Mystery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Brock, David (Fictitious character) Electronic books Family Fiction Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) Marx, Karl Mystery Older women Police Policewomen Sisters |