John Barber

The Marlowe Papers (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #11) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the VIP opening of The Shed, a new Arts Community Centre for Rutherford, Lucien Wadsworth a Shakespearean lecturer at Rutherford University is found dead in the gents toilets. It looks like he had slipped and cracked his skull on the porcelain. Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood soon discovers that Lucien Wadsworth is not his real name. Further investigations by his Sergeant, Miles Davis uncovers the fact that he had taught at many other Universities under a variety of aliases all backed up by false references. Winwood finds that The Shed was a project funded and supported by the local newspaper group, the local brewery, the railway company and the university. As the investigations meet successive dead ends he finds he is not investigating a recent suspicious death but thrown into an older four hundred year old mystery. No one will confirm nor deny that a manuscript recently uncovered by Wadsworth was written by Christopher Marlowe in 1620 is genuine, despite his death in 1593. Moving through the groups involved in The Shed and friends whom he trusts he needs to unscramble fact from fiction. He remains unconvinced that Wadsworth's death was an accident as he suffered bruising before his fall. Winwood's darkest thoughts become real when a member of the secret service becomes involved along with a strange right wing private club. Very slowly the mystery unravels and it remains a possibility that the manuscript is real. There is plenty of background regarding the truth and the theories behind the often held belief that it was Christopher Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare. The investigation reaches a conclusion regarding Wadsworth's death and the Marlowe script that is agreeable to all, including Winwood's superiors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005365714
• Artikelnr.: 70721027

Autorenporträt

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.