Children of the revolution : an Inspector Banks novel

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Label

Children of the revolution : an Inspector Banks novel

Title remainder

an Inspector Banks novel

Statement of responsibility

Peter Robinson

Creator

• Robinson, Peter, 1950-

Subject

• Detective and mystery stories
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Police -- England | Yorkshire -- Fiction
• Political activists -- Fiction
• Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
• Banks, Alan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early 1970s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling the whole truth, and after he pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is called on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction and moves into very high gear"--

Member of

• Inspector Banks novel

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Inspector Banks novel