When a prestigious girls’ boarding school in Derbyshire falls into financial ruin, a high-profile gala fundraising concert seems to be its saving grace. Strapped for cash, cynical socialist and freelance reporter Lindsay Gordon reluctantly agrees to cover the event. The night takes a macabre turn when the star attraction, renowned cellist Lorna Smith-Couper, is discovered dead in a locked room—strangled by her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage. When a close friend is wrongly accused of the crime, Lindsay steps into the fray to unravel a tangled web of long-buried secrets, academic rivalries, and institutional cover-ups to expose the true killer.
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| ISBN: 9781883523244 |
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| Genre: Mystery |
| Subject(s): England; Gordon, Lindsay (Fictitious Character); Gordon, Lindsay (Fictitious Character)/ Fiction; Lesbians |
| Publication Date: 1998-01-01 |
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| Publisher: Spinsters Ink |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 265 |
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| Notes: Report for Murder (1987) is the debut novel by celebrated crime writer Val McDermid. It is a landmark work of lesbian fiction that introduced the United Kingdom’s very first openly lesbian detective protagonist, freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon, establishing a pioneering framework for the queer feminist police procedural and amateur sleuth genres. |
| Book_ID: 107941 |