RAVENSCROFT’S LAST CASE a captivating Victorian historical murder mystery (Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries Book 10)
£1.90
Worcester, April 1893.
Detective Inspector Ravenscroft receives a strange note from a lonely old woman fearing for her life. But when he visits her, she is already dead.
DID MISS MAUD FINCHER’S HEART GIVE OUT OR WAS SHE SCARED TO DEATH?
Maud Fincher was part of a group of locals trying to speak to their deceased loved ones through the medium of séance. Ravenscroft thinks this is harmless nonsense . . . until the old lady’s last surviving heir is murdered.
Is there something sinister going on at these séances?
In his last-ever case before retiring Ravenscroft must question everything he believes in order to catch this killer.
CAN HE UNMASK THE MURDERER AND RETIRE IN PEACE?
Perfect for fans of M.R.C. Kasasian, E.S. Thomson, Oscar de Muriel or Karen Charlton.
MEET THE DETECTIVE
Inspector Samuel Ravenscroft, unmarried and over forty, is a detective in the Whitechapel branch of the Metropolitan Police. Painfully asthmatic, he is overlooked by his superiors in favour of his pushier colleagues. But Ravenscroft wants to prove himself and strives to overcome his physical limitations. His tools are forthright questioning, close examination of the evidence and personal intuition. He often finds that the solutions to crimes are buried deep in the past.
With his trusty Bradshaw, Ravenscroft and his colleague Sergeant Tom Crabb, travel around the Three Counties, overlooked by the Malvern Hills, bringing criminals to justice.
KERRY TOMBS was born near Birmingham, but grew up in various locations in north Worcestershire. After a career teaching in both England and Australia, he moved to Malvern in 1982, where he became a local genealogist, lecturer and bookseller.
INSPECTOR RAVENSCROFT DETECTIVE MYSTERIES SERIES
Book 1: THE MALVERN MURDERS
Book 2: THE WORCESTER WHISPERERS
Book 3: THE LEDBURY LAMPLIGHTERS
Book 4: THE TEWKESBURY TOMB
Book 5: THE DROITWICH DECEIVERS
Book 6: THE PERSHORE POISONERS
Book 7: THE UPTON UNDERTAKERS
Book 8: THE HEREFORDSHIRE HANGMEN
Book 9: THE BROMSGROVE BOOKSELLER
Book 10: RAVENSCROFT’S LAST CASE
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Additional information
| Publisher | Joffe Books Historical Mysteries (24 Nov. 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 2830 KB |
| Simultaneous device usage | Unlimited |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 220 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 178931562X |
by Mrs Katherine Patricia Woodcock
This was without doubt my one of my favourite reads in the whole Ravenscroft series. I am however incredibly sad that it was the final book in the series. The whole series has been thoroughly enjoyable and consistently excellent throughout. You come to know every character , every town , shop, village . An absolute delight. Thank you Kerry Tombs ….
by DAVE the yard
Similar to other readers, I am sad to see that this is the last case for Inspector Ravenscroft. I have thoroughly enjoyed the complete series. Easy to read, evocative of the period, and wonderful characters! I really hope that Kerry Tombs will write another book in this series, or perhaps follow on with Ravenscroft’s successor? I really hope so!
by will
get the full set and you will enjoy them well worth buying
by Blueroseis
It was saddening that it was the last case for Inspector Ravenscroft but as with all the other books in the series it was still an enjoyable read. I felt the case was a little slower than those in the previous books however, with a heartwarming ending it is well worth reading. The only thing that spoilt my enjoyment was the fact that several letters or in some cases an entire word was missing from the end of every line on the even numbered pages form 116 to 214 as can be seen in the submitted photo. Having to guess the word was really annoying.
by Blueroseis
I have just completed reading this excellent final book in the ten-part Ravenscroft series, having read them all in order within a week. That should in itself indicate their merits and worthiness. However, their outstanding attraction is for convincingly creating the late-Victorian world of Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens before modern forensic detection methods came to dominate crime novels. And they all do so in a an exciting and plausible manner that never ceases to maintain the reader’s interest to keep turning the page, or, in my case, scrolling upwards on my Kindle Fire. Without spoiling the stories, the collection follows Inspector Ravenscroft over five or six years of his late police detecting career when he moves from a frustrating, lonely and largely unsuccessful life in Whitchapel, London, to its bucolic opposite in Ledbury, Worcestershire, solving strange and perplexing crimes assisted by his faithful sidekick Tom Crabb and his devoted young wife, Lucy. Not a motor car in sight, our intrepid pair manage to travel extensively around the Malvern Hills by trap and horse and by train in pursuit of their quarries and evidence. And, in one notable story, Samuel (Ravenscroft) even travels by ship to New York. The historical contexts and background are always accurate and titillating, providing a kind of literary time machine.
The characters are consistently well-drawn and maintained, the dialogue is highly readable and pacy, albeit in some places somewhat repetitive, and the action is exciting and plausible. Nevertheless, there is, it is true, much inevitable formulaic treatment in the various ingenious plots. There are also some regrettable typos and word repititions and omissions but these never cause too much annoyance or confusion. For those readers, who, like me, yearn to escape from contemporary gritty and sick contemporary crime novels, these ten novels provide a wonderful and delightful antidote. I give the entire series five stars. A really positive and thoroughly refreshing reading experience. Thoroughly recommended.
by mamplin
I have thoroughly enjoyed all 10 books of this series and am utterly devastated that this is the final one! Great characters and excellent mysteries to be solved in each book. I can definitely see these books being played out on TV! I’d love for the author to write more adventures with Ravenscroft or even a new series with Sergeant Crabb as the main character. Excellent!
by micha
As with all Kerry Tombs’s novels in this series this is also excellent.very cleverly written and a pleasure to read,a shame the series has ended.enjoyed every one.Highly recommend.
by Peter Tooth
As stated before for this series