In this exceptional British mystery by a Gold Dagger winner, an aging aristocrat and her longtime lover explore the dark events of their shared past (The Atlanta JournalConstitution). Lady Lucy Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears on the radio reminds her of her younger, darker days and inspires her to question her dearest friend and former lover, Paul Ackerley, about his role in a series of past family tragedies. There was the strange death of Lucys brotherinlaw, the brute Gerry Grantworth, in the Yellow Room of Blatchardsthe huge and ugly Vereker estateand the subsequent destruction by fire of the sprawling manor house. And then there was the infamous Seddon Affair, the sordid scandal that rocked Great Britain in the midst of the Suez Crisis. Surprised to hear that the woman he has always loved suspects him to be the culprit behind these eventsespecially since he always assumed Lucy herself helped engineer themPaul suggests that they each record their memories and compare them. By doing so, perhaps they will both find their way to the longhidden and terrible truth. Told through an alternating series of memories and flashbacks, The Yellow Room Conspiracy brilliantly recreates a postwar era and a world of privilege corrupted by greed, jealousy, lust, and lies. The astonishing Peter Dickinson, one of Britains greatest suspense novelists of the late twentieth century, ingeniously wraps a love story around a mystery and once again solidifies...

Binding: Paperback;250 pages; Publisher: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe; Classification: N/A; Weight: 410.3 g; Dimensions: N/A

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