The death of kings

Resource Information

The work The death of kings represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The death of kings

Statement of responsibility

Rennie Airth

Creator

• Airth, Rennie, 1935-

Author

• Airth, Rennie, 1935-

Subject

• Triads (Organized crime) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
• Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Ex-police officers -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- Fiction
• Kent (England) -- Fiction
• Madden, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Actresses -- Crimes against -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered on the grand Kent estate of Sir Jack Jessup, close friend of the Prince of Wales. The arrest of an ex-convict and his subsequent confession swiftly bring the case to a close, but in 1949, the reappearance of a jade necklace raises questions about the murder. Was the man convicted and executed the decade before truly guilty? Though happily retired from the police force, John Madden is persuaded to investigate the case afresh. In a story of honor and justice that takes Madden through the idyllic English countryside, post-war streets of London, and into the criminal underworld of the Chinese Triads, The Death of Kings is an atmospheric and captivating police procedural

Member of

• John Madden novel, 5

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9369.3.A47

LC item number

D435 2017

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

A John Madden mystery

Series volume

5

Target audience

adult