The Missing Bronte

Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife Jan had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing a retired schoolmistress proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part of an undiscovered novel by one of the Brontë sisters. Was it a clever forgery or the literary sensation of the century?<br><br>What started out as a harmless holiday diversion for the superintendent turned into a hunt for a vicious attacker as both Miss Wing and Perry himself found themselves in deadly danger.<br><br>'You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty intelligent and a joy to read' <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>'One of our most original and versatile bloodspillers' Marcel Berlins <i>The Times</i><br><br>'Delicious . . . an appetising entertainment' <i>New York Times</i>