Teresa of Watling Street [Paperback]

Arnold Bennett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

When Richard Redgrave is employed by the British and Scottish Bank, he is asked to investigate two strange events. A former worker had committed suicide within a week of leaving the company, while another employee, Mr Craig, a rich man due to a recent inheritance, had not quit his position as expected. Redgrave is asked to explain these matters and so he begins his investigations. He soon meets Teresa, Mr Craig's daughter, who is extremely alluring. Unfortunately for Redgrave, she is also adept at telling lies and he cannot afford to be distracted... This is Bennett's first attempt at popular detective fiction and he does not disappoint

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, Staffordshire. At twenty-one, he moved to London, initially to work as a solicitor's clerk, but he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women's magazine. After the publication of his first novel, A Man From the North in 1898, he became a professional writer. He moved to Paris and became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. Bennett's great reputation is built upon the success of his novels and short stories set in the Potteries, an area of north Staffordshire that he recreated as the 'Five Towns'. Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale show the influence of Flaubert, Maupassant and Balzac as Bennett describes provincial life in great detail. Arnold Bennett is an important link between the English novel and European realism. He wrote several plays and lighter works such as The Grand Babylon Hotel and The Card. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: House of Stratus (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755106865
• ISBN-13: 978-0755106868