Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 The worlds of Jason Hemp

The worlds of Jason Hemp

and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America

sophisticated and worldly - everything Dani aspires to be

passed like gifts between gangs

Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 The worlds of Jason HempBordering on a parody this is an early Connington novel with an unusual light hearted tone not found in his later books with Sir Clinton Driffield. The story involves the invention of a lethal ray and the attempts of Jimmy Leigh, the inventor, to acquire financing to start a manufacturing business. His mistake is that he chooses as his primary back William Hubbard, a wealthy, lisping, butterfly collector who also happens to be a despicable blackmailer.