Book description
On Tara Hill, near Dublin, is the site where “The House of a Thousand
Soldiers” once stood. An archaeologist becomes involved in a project to
rebuild “The House of Soldiers” and to repeople it for a day with living
images of the soldiers who had once caroused there. But behind the
project is a plot and James Maguire soon finds himself in a predicament
from which there seems to be no escape.
Andrew Garve’s realism and ingenuity is given full rein in this account
of Maguire’s desperate but calculated actions to free himself from the
trap.
‘Of all the English writers of detection one of the most original,
certainly the most versatile in subject, is Andrew Garve.’ Daily Telegraph
Andrew Garve is the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was
born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester
and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in
Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist
for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London
News Chronicle
as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the
BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure
novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized,
televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages.
He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds - which have included
Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the
Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry - and for
never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
