Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage.

Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy, one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A harrowing quest for answers begins, one that uncovers a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta seemingly without end...

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Corgi Books, ISBN: 9780552164511 (July, 1993), 522 p., £7.99.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (USA 2006)

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In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster's family -- especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte believes is innocent. For Charlotte, a harrowing quest for answers begins -- one that will take her into the shadows of the past... and into the life and secrets of the dead woman's brother, famed poet and casualty of the Spanish Civil War, Tristram Abberley.

Now, amid shattering revelations about her family, and in the aftermath of a second savage crime, Charlotte finds herself at the center of a widening storm. And for Charlotte, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. As fifty years of secrets begin to unravel, shy, cautious Charlotte is coming alive in the shadow of a mystery -- uncovering a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta of violence seemingly without end...

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Delta Publishing, ISBN: 0385339216 (April, 2006), 464 p., $12.00.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (USA 1994)

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Robert Goddard is widely hailed as a master at crafting elegant, serpentine novels that keep readers riveted until the final unexpected twist. With HAND IN GLOVE, Goddard weaves a compelling tale of murder, family mystery, literary scandal, and hazardous romance...

Robbery seems to be the motive for the death of dowager Beatrix Abberley; shady antiques dealer Colin Fairfax is quickly arrested and charged with her murder. Colin, however, maintains his innocence, and asks his timid brother, Derek, to clear his name. Charlotte Ladram, Beatrix's loyal godchild and heir, has doubts about everything, including the motive for the crime. Her godmother was the sister of the great English poet Tristram Abberley, who died fifty years earlier in the Spanish Civil War. When long-lost letters he wrote to Beatrix are unearthed, they reveal shocking secrets about Tristram's work-secrets any number of people would kill to possess. Drawn together by their passionate desire to find the answers, Charlotte and Derek follow a labyrinthine trail of clues across rural England to Wales, New York, Paris, and Spain -- only to discover that no one and nothing are what they seem. A pattern of evil is surfacing that will change forever their sense of the world... and lead them on a quest even more intriguing than the Chinese box of mysteries they've opened in the aftermath of an old woman's cruel murder...

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Washington Square Press, ISBN: 0671890379 (October, 1994), 428 p., $12.00.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Tristram Abberley was an English poet of the 1930s whose reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is murdered during what appears to be a robbery at her home, but robbery - it transpires - is only part of the motive that underlies her death. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy, one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat.

But nothing is quite as it seems in a Robert Goddard novel. In a narrative that moves between Cheltenham and New York, Paris and rural Wales, Tunbridge Wells and wartime Spain, the conspirators themselves are caught up in a chain of dramatic events that are the consequences of meddling in the dark secrets of the legendary poet.

Hand in Glove is as full of devious and unexpected twists and as compelling as anything Robert Goddard has written.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Corgi Books, ISBN: 0552138398 (July, 1993), 526 p., £4.99.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
Combining the suspense of P. D. James, the literary sleuthing of A. S. Byatt, and his own inimitable plotting and srace, Robert Goddard creates a superb mystery a novel sure to win him thousands of new fans.

Readers of Robert Goddard's novels quickly become addicted. His devilishly clever ploting, his subtle yet fully rendered depictions of character and society, his appealing, down-at-the-heels heroes suddenly overtaken by a mystery with a moral imperative at its heart, have won him a fervent following. With Hand in Glove, Goddard delivers even more a mystery both personal and literary, whose roots weave back to the Spanish Civil War, and a wonderfully winning heroine to help in its solution. This is a book that will keep readers up all night, intensely absorbed and guessing until the last page is furned.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Poseidon Press, ISBN: 0671750704 (January, 1993), 427 p., $22.00.