Inspector Richard Ringwood, an Oxford-educated gentleman copper, helps a classmate, John Link, find out who snatched his child from a pram in their front yard in Oxford. In the Sayers, Marsh and Innes tradition.
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Inspector Richard Ringwood, an Oxford-educated gentleman copper, helps a classmate, John Link, find out who snatched his child from a pram in their front yard in Oxford. In the Sayers, Marsh and Innes tradition.
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Add this copy of The Missing Link to cart. $7.64, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Rue Morgue Press.
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Add this copy of The Missing Link to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by MLC Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Northfield, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Rue Morgue Press.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. In the first Inspector Richard Ringwood mystery, Ringwood investigates the kidnapping of a two-month-old baby in Oxford, where the suspects range from a gypsy woman to an eccentric don or two. First American edition, following the 1952 British publication. Lower corner very gently bumped.
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Pudim, Rob. Fine. Trade Paperback 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy. A gypsy woman's vision puts a gentleman copper on the trail of a kidnapper in the streets, gardens and halls of Oxford. When two month-old Perdita Link goes missing from her pram in an Oxford don's garden, Inspector Richard Ringwood is asked to interrupt his courting to track her down. It's a very perplexing case. There are almost as many suspects as leads, including a gypsy woman, a mysterious foreign intruder, an observing young thug, a conscientious nanny, and even an eccentric don or two. All Inspector Ringwood knows for sure is that his chances of finding young Perdita alive lessen with each passing hour. With the help of his fiancée, Claire Liddicote, and Sam Plummer, a resourceful, if plodding, Oxford policeman, Richard explores every corner of this ancient university town, from its academic halls to nearby gypsy encampments. An Oxford graduate himself, Richard is equally at home trading witticisms in Latin with the dons as he is in using his limited Romany (book-learned, he has no idea how the words are pronounced) to converse with an old gypsy woman. He's taken aback when she goes into a trance and tells him he is to deal with "a single loss, a double find." Written by the w ife of Austin Farrer, described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as "'possibIy the greatest Anglican mind ol the twentieth century, " this very cleverly titled 1952 traditional English mystery offers up a marvelous portrait ot life in Oxford, where the Farrers were intimate friends to CS. Lewis, Charles Williams, .J.R.R. Tolkien, and Dorothy L. Sayers. While there's plenty ot attention paid to the coming and goings of the dons, much of it with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Farrer also depicts the daily doings of their families, as well as the townspeople. with an insider's quiet humor. The action comes to a head during a very avant garde performance of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale, ' leading to Richard's gripping fnial battle with a most fiercesome adversary. 192 pages.
Add this copy of The Missing Link to cart. $26.02, new condition, Sold by Chidoc5 Rare Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland Park, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Rue Morgue.
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Unfortunately neither the writing or the plot was of any particular interest until the very end and at that point I just wanted to get it over with. Not a book I would read again and that is always a bad sign. Very odd considering how enjoyable her other books are.
