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    The Sussex Murder

    Written by Ian Sansom

    Narrated by Mike Grady

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    From Beachy Head to Brighton, and from Chichester to Rye, Flaming Sussex sees our intrepid trio plunge once again into the dark heart of England

    ‘Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail

    At about four o’clock on 5th November 1937, Miss Lizzie Walter, a teacher at the King’s Road Primary School in Lewes, said goodbye to her young pupils. The children clattered out into the dark streets, preparing for that night’s revelries – and Miss Lizzie Walter was never seen alive again.

    Hitler, Mussolini and Pope Paul V are on fire. Fireworks explode and flaming tar barrels are being dragged through the streets. Bonfire Night in Lewes is the closest England comes to Mardis Gras. In their fifth adventure, Morley, Miriam and Sefton find themselves caught up in the celebrations and the chaos.

    On the morning after the night before, Sefton goes for a swim in Pells Pool, the oldest freshwater lido in England – in the very centre of Lewes – where he discovers a woman’s body. She has drowned. Is it a misadventure or could it be … murder?

    Join Morley, Miriam and Sefton on another journey into the dark heart of England.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMay 30, 2019
    ISBN9780008207373
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    The Sussex Murder
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    Ian Sansom

    Ian Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for The Guardian and The London Review of Books.

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    • 5/5
      Once again, Sefton, Morley and Miriam hit the road in the Lagonda to gather material for one of the County Guides, this time to Sussex. After a short visit to Brighton, they arrive in Lewes in the evening of 5 November – Bonfire Night. In the morning after the celebrations the night before, Sefton finds a woman's body in the lido, a shoelace tied around her neck. With the help of Miriam and Sefton, Professor Morley asks some questions to get to the bottom of the tragedy.This is the fifth volume in the County Guides series, and I feel that with every instalment the plot becomes slightly darker. The novel is set in 1937, and the reader encounters the British Blackshirts, members of the British Union of Fascists, for the first time, though only in passing. Otherwise, a lot of pages are devoted to atmosphere, in both London and the country, and characterisation, especially of the three main characters, with Sefton – as before – not shying away from critical self-analysis. It seems therefore inevitable that the central mystery doesn't experience as much exposure as in previous novels, with Sefton discovering the body only just after the halfway mark in the book, and this plot strand feels slightly rushed. Still, there is as always much to enjoy here, from factoids on British history and other trivia to the interplay between the characters, this time with the addition of a dog.Of course I'll be a passenger in the Lagonda again when Morley and Co. take to the road again. I just hope that the wait won't be quite as long as that between volumes 4 and 5, which took more than two years.