Death and the Assassins Blade, Phillip Strang
Death and the Assassins Blade, Phillip Strang
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Death and the Assassin's Blade

Author: Phillip Strang

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/24/2023


Synopsis

Amateur dramatics was never meant to be so deadly!

The man was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless. A summer's night, a production of Julius Caesar among the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood. The assassination scene, the man collapses to the ground, Brutus defending his actions, Mark Antony's rebuke.

They're a disparate group, the amateur actors. One's an estate agent, another, an accountant. And then there is the teenage man, the gay, the funeral director, the commodities trader. And what about the women? They could be involved.

They've all got a secret, but which of those on the stage wanted Gordon Mason, the actor who had portrayed Caesar, dead?

About Phillip Strang

Phillip Strang, an avid reader since childhood, was born in the late forties in England.

In his early twenties, the author, with a degree in electronics engineering, left England for Sydney, Australia. Now, nearly fifty years later, he still resides in Australia, although with many intervening years spent in a myriad of countries, some calm and safe-others, no more than war zones.

The author of thirty-one books, the majority of them crime thrillers based in the United Kingdom, he has also written several books on terrorism and one on a pandemic.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ted on December 10, 2017

"The devil is in the detail" If you love the police procedural genre then this will be right up your street. Detectives Tremayne and Yarwood have hardly recovered from their clash with the pagan worshippers, and Yarwood's emotions are still very raw. The first death scene is played out in front of an......more

Goodreads review by Lis on October 05, 2018

It's six months after the terrible events at Avon Hill. Tremayne is doing something utterly atypical for himself--attending a local "Shakespeare in the Park" performance of Julius Caesar. He's doing it for DS Clare Yarwood, who is back at work after extended compassionate following Harry's death, bu......more

Goodreads review by Madam on June 14, 2018

During an amateur theater production, Julius Caesar is killed onstage, stabbed by two knives that had been exchanged for props. Not only is the murder in their territory, but Tremayne & Clare are in the audience, and they immediately embark on a winding journey to discover who killed the actor playi......more

Goodreads review by Charles on December 13, 2017

DI Keith Tremayne and his partner, DS Clare Yarwood are attending a local theatrical group’s performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar,’ When the actor portraying Caesar is stabbed in Act 3, and the body is removed from the stage, little do the two cops know that they have just witnessed an actual......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 27, 2017

I am voluntarily reviewing an Advanced Reader Copy of this book that I received for free. The second book in the DI Tremayne series is a suspenseful tale that takes the reader on the same roller coaster mystery ride as the Detective Inspector and his Sergeant. Both parties are recovering from the eve......more