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DAGGER

M A Ramey

ISBN 978-1-916668-82-9

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Publication: 30 MAY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668829
Price: £10.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 368 pp
Thema: FV Historical Fiction

Author location: West Sussex
Book location: London

• A historical crime novel set in London, in 1914,
on the brink of the First World War.
• Covering significant historical events such as
the burning of the Library of Louvain and as
well as meeting historical figures such as
Picasso, Cocteau and Apollinaire.
• Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom, George
MacDonald Fraser and Andrew Martin.

Mark Ramey is a father of two and husband of one, who lives in West
Sussex and teaches Film at a sixth form college. A Philosophy Summer 1914. A London-based private detective, Sergeant
Dagger, is employed by Celia Harrison, a suffragette, to
graduate with a taste for Nietzsche, art history and poetry, Dagger is discover why her husband, an army Captain, has
his first published novel. committed suicide. Unconvinced by the official verdict of
melancholia, Celia wants the truth - as do MI5, who also
recruit Dagger.

As WW1 breaks out, Dagger reluctantly joins the British
Expeditionary Force, and sails to France with the first
battalions. There he uncovers a web of deceit and
hypocrisy lying at the heart of the British Army.

Operating along the fast-moving front-line, Dagger sees the
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP death of the first British soldier, flies with the Royal Flying
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E: enquiries@starbooksales.com Cateau and the Aisne. Later, reassigned to libertine Paris,

Orders: Troubador Publishing Dagger, an amateur artist and poet, meets modernist icons
Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk Picasso, Cocteau and Apollinaire before discovering the
0116 279 2299 identity of a mysterious painter called Fevert and helping
MI5 solve one last problem.
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