Black Agent - Flynn, Brian

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Résumé :
Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse, while night's black agents to their preys do rouseMacbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody saw what happened to her and she vanished without trace. One month later, Vera Ferris appeared at the same venue wearing the same dress. But before anyone can find out where she got it from, she too disappears...After Anthony Bathurst discovers the bodies of the two women, he is faced with a slew of questions. Why would a yellow dress drive someone to murder? Why did the killer steal a bowl of fat from the butcher's shop on the night of each murder? And what on earth does it have to do with a dancing bear? Black Agent was first published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge....

Biographie:
Brian Flynn was born in 1885 in Leyton, Essex. He won a scholarship to the City Of London School, and from there went into the civil service. In World War I he served as Special Constable on the Home Front, also teaching Accountancy, Languages, Maths and Elocution to men, women, boys and girls in the evenings, and acting in his spare time. It was a seaside family holiday that inspired Brian Flynn to turn his hand to writing in the mid-twenties. Finding most mystery novels of the time mediocre in the extreme, he decided to compose his own. Edith, the author's wife, encouraged its completion, and after a protracted period finding a publisher, it was eventually released in 1927 by John Hamilton in the UK and Macrae Smith in the U.S. as The Billiard-Room Mystery. The author died in 1958. In all, he wrote and published 54 mysteries, the vast majority featuring the super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst....

Sommaire:
Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse, while night's black agents to their preys do rouseMacbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody saw what happened to her and she vanished without trace. One month later, Vera Ferris appeared at the same venue wearing the same dress. But before anyone can find out where she got it from, she too disappears...After Anthony Bathurst discovers the bodies of the two women, he is faced with a slew of questions. Why would a yellow dress drive someone to murder? Why did the killer steal a bowl of fat from the butcher's shop on the night of each murder? And what on earth does it have to do with a dancing bear? Black Agent was first published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge....