A Man of Some Repute (A Very English Mystery, Band 1)

pTruth is rarely pure and never simple/ppSelchester Castle in 1953 sits quiet and near-empty, its corridors echoing with glories of the past./ppOr so it seems to intelligence officer Hugo Hawksworth, wounded on a secret mission and now reluctantly assuming an altogether less perilous role at Selchester./ppThe Castles faded grandeur hides a web of secrets and scandalsthe Earl has been missing for seven years, lost without a trace since the night he left his guests and walked out into a blizzard./ppWhen a skeleton is uncovered beneath the flagstones of the Old Chapel, the police produce a suspect and declare the case