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'A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky.' How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia, and to the tombs of the Whispering Dead? Jack Haldean has evaded the truth for years, but now, enmeshed in the web of murder, theft and deception, he must find the answer and face up to the truth - a truth as deadly as any dragon.
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In 1924, Charles Otterbourne's New Century company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington's radical new gramophone. But when murder is the result of their meeting at a London hotel, Jack Haldean takes up the case, in a desperate bid to save a man from the gallows.
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'Art, my dear boy,' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .' He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. 'Art,' she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. 'Art! Oh my God, art!' She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell. Jack Haldean expected Lythewell...
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Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith: “With vision and vigor, Gordon-Smith pulls off another Golden Age delight.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “A classic postwar country-house mystery with a Christie-like denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews “Dorothy Sayers fans will be most rewarded.”—Publishers Weekly Freezing and hungry, George Lassiter breaks into a stranger’s house where he witnesses a murder. But when the police find no evidence, they—and...
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