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A cold treachery, Charles Todd, (electronic resource)

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"You'll hang for this-see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down ..." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he'd lost much of his soul-and his sanity-but not in an otherwise peaceful farm kitchen in remote Urskdale. Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their table without the least sign of struggle. Was the killer someone the young family knew and trusted? When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts' children, a boy named Josh, is missing. Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he's silenced by the merciless elements-or the even colder hands of a killer. Haunted and goaded by the soldier-ghost of his own tortured war past, Rutledge will discover the tragedy of war that splintered one marriage-and pulled together another. Love, jealousy, greed, revenge-or was it some twisted combination of all of them? Any one could lead a man or woman to murder. What had the Elcotts done to ignite their killer's rage? With time running out, Rutledge knows all too well that such a cold-blooded murderer could be hiding somewhere in the blinding snow ... preparing to strike again
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eng
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A cold treachery
Title
A cold treachery
Statement of responsibility
Charles Todd
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"You'll hang for this-see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down ..." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself confronted with one of the most savage murders he has ever encountered. Rutledge might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields, where he'd lost much of his soul-and his sanity-but not in an otherwise peaceful farm kitchen in remote Urskdale. Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their table without the least sign of struggle. Was the killer someone the young family knew and trusted? When the victims are tallied the local police are in for another shock: One of the Elcotts' children, a boy named Josh, is missing. Now the Inspector must race to uncover a murderer and to save a child before he's silenced by the merciless elements-or the even colder hands of a killer. Haunted and goaded by the soldier-ghost of his own tortured war past, Rutledge will discover the tragedy of war that splintered one marriage-and pulled together another. Love, jealousy, greed, revenge-or was it some twisted combination of all of them? Any one could lead a man or woman to murder. What had the Elcotts done to ignite their killer's rage? With time running out, Rutledge knows all too well that such a cold-blooded murderer could be hiding somewhere in the blinding snow ... preparing to strike again
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In December 1919, when five members of a family are found slaughtered in the kitchen of their Lake District cottage, Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the crime as well as the disappearance of the missing youngest child in the family
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http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
131015
Cataloging source
TEFOD
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document
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Todd, Charles
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3570.O37
LC item number
C65 2005eb
Literary form
fiction
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True
Series statement
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries
Series volume
0007
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  • Rutledge, Ian (Fictitious character)
  • Mass murder investigation
  • England, Northern
  • Police
  • Missing children
  • Child witnesses
Target audience
adult
Label
A cold treachery, Charles Todd, (electronic resource)
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http://goldcoast.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4AC2C686-8B4E-4D06-B3B9-21FCFC4A9C3D
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Publication
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multicolored
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (373 p.)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780553901221
Isbn Type
(electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
Other physical details
map.
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
4AC2C686-8B4E-4D06-B3B9-21FCFC4A9C3D
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  • (Sirsi) o233522520
  • (OCoLC)233522520
Label
A cold treachery, Charles Todd, (electronic resource)
Link
http://goldcoast.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4AC2C686-8B4E-4D06-B3B9-21FCFC4A9C3D
Publication
Color
multicolored
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (373 p.)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780553901221
Isbn Type
(electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
Other physical details
map.
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
4AC2C686-8B4E-4D06-B3B9-21FCFC4A9C3D
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o233522520
  • (OCoLC)233522520

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