Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
190
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1970
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-10
0340106077
ISBN-13
9780340106075
Description
ISLAND OF THE MADOn a bleak island of the Hebrides a fanatical religious sect is struggling to build the Eternal City with damp cement. Hither comes Detective-Superintendent James Pribble, summoned by a voice from the past - the voice of Sir Francis Francis, twice winner of the Nobel Prize and virtual prisoner of the mad monks who see him as their last source of financial salvation. So reluctant are the brethren to let Sir Francis go, in fact, that they will stop at nothing - murder included - to make sure he stays...
Genres
Mystery