Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 and established Cain as a

and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America

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And when a disgraced FBI agent gets in touch things take an even darker turn

travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell - a macabre artefact owned by Dr Wilkinson

her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the West Coast of Ireland

Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 and established Cain as aBordering on a parody this is an early Connington novel with an unusual light hearted tone not found in his later books with Sir Clinton Driffield. The story involves the invention of a lethal ray and the attempts of Jimmy Leigh, the inventor, to acquire financing to start a manufacturing business. His mistake is that he chooses as his primary back William Hubbard, a wealthy, lisping, butterfly collector who also happens to be a despicable blackmailer.