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But any lingering festive cheer is in short supply when a shocking discovery is made the following day

the police open a disused mine in the mountains

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When anonymous complaints are submitted to the council about each of the local allotment holders

Shot with crimson Author Forename:Nicola But any lingering festive cheerSeptember, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier a trail that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of