ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Macdonald Hastings - Cork on the Water
Penguin, 1959
224 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Reel mystery, reel murder? Fly fishing is the vacation made to order until the catch is a dead corpse. Follow Montague Cork on this adventure through the Scottish Highlands as he casts the line that will hook the man who thinks he got away. Originally published in 1951, this reprint of a classic British mystery has delighted readers (and fly fishermen) with its old world charm and excitement. Written by adventurer and author Macdonald Hastings, `Cork on the Water` will feed you a little line and hook you when you least expect it.

The first of a series of five mysteries to feature insurance investigator Montague Cork. An adventure story with a Scottish salmon fishing theme. `Meet Mr. Montague Cork, an outrageously unlikely hero. Pompous, insufferably proper, and British to the core, Cork will capture your imagination and keep you laughing even though you may be on the edge of your seat. When his insurance company is asked to pay out a beneficiary claim, Montague Cork instinctively smells something fishy. Who is the decomposing corpse fly-fished from the best salmon-fishing beat in northern Scotland. Why do so many sinister people queue up to foil his investigation? Impelled to sniff out the truth, Cork and his cast of characters take you on a romp through the Scottish countryside in a tale of international intrigue. Complete with high speed chases, a sassy heroine, and zinging bulletes, Cork on the Water will feed you a little line and then hook you when you least expect it.`

Macdonald Hastings has many reputations and has had a very varied career. In addition to writing thrillers about his hero, Mr Montague Cork, he is the founder and editor, with A. G. Street, of the magazine Country Fair. Women know him for his romantic `Letters of Sympathy` in the B.B.C.`s `Woman`s Hour`, and in many magazines. Children know of his adventurous exploits as the Special Investigator of the Eagle, and the book of these adventures - Eagle Special Investigator - was published in 1953. During the war he was Picture Post`s War Cor-respondent and started the famous column in Lilliput signed `Lemuel Gulliver`. After the war, in which he saw action in all three services, he was appointed editor of Strand Magazine.
Macdonald Hastings is forty-five, is married to Anne Scott-James of the Sunday Express, and has a son and a daughter. He has a flat in London and a cottage in the country. His hobbies are hunting, shooting, and fishing.


Fiction, Mystery, Thriller