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'The Big Nowhere' blends the crime novel with the political novel

who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward

She's on the scent of a career-making story - a suspicious death amongst the cloistered elite world of Cambridge University

Days later

recently released from prison

The Three Taps Lyn Liao Crooked Lane Books FH Paperback 2025 'The Big Nowhere' blends theIn a gas lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured. The culprit is the three gas taps in Mr Mottram's room, and Miles hopes to prove that his death is suicide. Miles' old wartime colleague, Police Inspector Leyland, is convinced it's murder. And the