Blood on the Wood

Name: Blood on the Wood
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ISBN: 9780312331481

ISBN-10: 0312331487

ISBN-13: 9780312331481

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gillian Linscott

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When the suffragette movement is bequeathed a valuable painting by campaigner Philomena Venn, suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray agrees to retrieve it. The plan is simple: Collect the picture from Philomena's widower, Oliver, take it to Christie's, and sell it to raise much-needed funds. But Nell is in for a surprise when she returns from the Vennes' home in the Cotswolds: The painting he has given her is a fake! When Oliver refuses to hand over the real painting, his son, political activist Daniel Venn, suggests an alternative plan to Nell: Why doesn't she break into the house and switch the paintings? Against her better judgment she agrees, and in the process she uncovers a far more…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Praise for



""Nell Bray novels always charm with their easy mix of politics and passion.""


The Poisoned Pen ""Superb. . . . Linscott has combined a wonderful cast of characters with a clever, unexpected resolution.""


Publishers Weekly on Dead Man Riding (starred review)


""Linscott captures the tenor of the times . . . and presents a complex puzzle with an original solution


Well done.""


Kirkus Reviews on Dead Man Riding (starred review)


""Linscott depicts human natu