Fear Stalks the Village

Name: Fear Stalks the Village
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By Ethel Lina White

Series: British Library Crime Classics

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Fear Stalks the Village has a sense of reality about it which few thrillers possess, and the characterisation is excellent. You will enjoy thrill upon thrill. — Tatler To the connoisseur of crime, the name of Ethel Lina White is one to be spoken of with... Read More

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Fear Stalks the Village

Revelling in the wickedness that lies beneath the idyllic veneer of village life, White's 1932 mystery is an inventive interwar classic and remains one of the foundation stones of the village mystery sub-genre of crime fiction.

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Fear Stalks the Village has a sense of reality about it which few thrillers possess, and the characterisation is excellent. You will enjoy thrill upon thrill. — Tatler

To the connoisseur of crime, the name of Ethel Lina White is one to be spoken of with awe. — News Chronicle

Ambling along the lanes of a sleepy village in the Downs, passing cosy Tudor cottages rustling with wisteria, a novelist imagines the sordid truth hidden behind the quaint, rustic facade. Her musings are confirmed when a spate of anonymous poison pen letters shocks the community, turning neighbour against neighbour and embroiling everyone from the rector and the 'queen of the village' Decima Asprey to the high-born Scudamores.

With venom in the air, the perpetrator a mystery and dark secrets threatening to come to light, a shadow of shame and scandal stretches over the parish, with death and disaster following in its wake.

Series: British Library Crime Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712355308

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Contributors:

Introduction by Martin Edwards

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 304

Collections

Crime & Thriller Ethel Lina White Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: British Library Crime Classics

About the Author

Ethel Lina White (18761944) was an author from Abergavenny whose novels and short stories in the crime and thriller genres were immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, when her reputation rivalled those of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Her novel The Wheel Spins was published in this series in 2023.