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The Murder in Romney Marsh
1929
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
The little village of St. Joseph's on Romney Marsh is alive with gossip, and with good reason - for the body of businessman Robert Garfield has been found shot in a meadow near his home at Applecross Farm. Scotland Yard have sent Detective-Inspector James Carthew to assist the local police. The young detective hopes that this case will be the making of him. But when the villagers prove reluctant to help, Carthew finds himself with some difficult decisions to make...
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
84
5 STARS
36%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
23%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
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Author

Edgar Jepson
Author · 6 books

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth, Hugh Clevely and possibly Arthur Machen, long-term friends. He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair magazine, where he employed Richard Middleton, and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc. He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club. As a literary dynasty: his son Selwyn Jepson was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing. Jepson was friends with the English mystery writer Hugh Clevely and even shared the same pseudonym "Tod Claymore." They co-wrote the novel "The Man With the Amber Eyes."

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