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Skeleton in the Grass
Robert Barnard
#UB6562
Paperback, 224 pages; 2007 (1987)
$8.90
Mysteries from Felony & Mayhem
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The focus in The Skeleton in the Grass is on England in the 1930s, during the runup to the war, among the vaguely liberal upper class whose comfy world is about to disappear. To Sara Causley, fresh from a provincial vicarage, the aristocratic, intellectual Hallam clan, for whom she is to serve as governess, exemplifies the very best of England. But the Hallams' pacifism provokes the neighboring working-class Fascist sympathizers, who then behave badly. When one of the local lads is found dead on the Hallams' property, the community thinks the family is to blame. As events strip away Sara's naiveté, she is prompted to rethink her memories of those happy family picnics on the lush Hallam lawns.
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