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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780001049079 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0001049070 Label: HarperCollins Audio Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: July 24, 1995 Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Studio: HarperCollins Audio Editorial Review: Product Description: Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career and why should the woman he loves reject him? Who, 70 years later, should try to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, decides to find out. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - reprint of a deep English historical thrillerIn 1977 Madeira, thirty year old wannabe but failed historian Martin Radford has an opportunity to redeem his name instead of wasting his talent and education as he has so far. Leo Sellick selects him to look into the disturbing life of the late Home Secretary Edwin Strafford, whose meteoric rise foretold a great political future that collapsed even faster in 1910 after only two years in the cabinet. Sellick wants to learn why Strafford failed so rapidly that he moved to Madeira to hide and why ... Read More Rating:  - One of Robert Goddard's bestMartin Redford is an unemployed and divorced ex-schoolteacher of foundered promise and dismal prospect. So when Alec Fowler suggests that Martin comes to visit him on the island of Madeira with the promise of a prospective job offered by his South African friend Leo Sellick, he eagerly accepts. It turns out that when Sellick became the owner of his house, the Quinta do Porto Novo, he came across a manuscript written by its previous owner, Edwin Strafford. Strafford had been appointed Home Secretary ... Read More Rating: - BrilliantGoddard's first novel and perhaps his best - although his "In Pale Battalions" is also excellent. If you like a good "mystery in the past" novel this is it. Highly recommended. Rating: - Sherlock Holmes stuff!Martin Radford, an out of work, disgraced historian, is hired by a millionaire businessman to fly to the island of Madiera where he is filled in with the story of an Edwardian Cabinet Minister, Edwin Strafford, who suddenly resigned from Parliament at the height of his career, and retired to the house in Madiera where the businessman now lives.Martin's brief is to find out exactly why Edwin resigned and all the circumstances surrounding his withdrawal from Society plus the breaking of his engagement. The ... Read More Rating: - The First, but still the best from Robert GoddardThis book is unmissable. Idiscovered it shortly after it was first published and it was unbelievable. I've since read all of his, some brilliant, all good, but this remains the best. |
