The House of Soldiers

On Tara Hill near Dublin is the site where The House of a Thousand Soldiers once stood. An archaeologist becomes involved in a project to rebuild The House of Soldiers and to repeople it for a day with living images of the soldiers who had once caroused there. But behind the project is a plot and James Maguire soon finds himself in a predicament from which there seems to be no escape.<br><br>Andrew Garve's realism and ingenuity is given full rein in this account of Maguire's desperate but calculated actions to free himself from the trap.<br><br>'Of all the English writers of detection one of the most original certainly the most versatile in subject is Andrew Garve.' <i>Daily Telegraph</i>