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BONES OF THE BURIED, THE
by David Roberts
Carroll & Graf, October 2001
342 pages
$22.00
ISBN: 0786709081


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The second in the Lord Edward Corinth / Verity Browne series, takes place less than a year after the ending of the first. It's now 1937, and after spending several months in New York with Amy Pageant, Ned has returned to a changed England. George V has died and Edward VIII is king, but he associates with a rather racy crowd.

Verity comes to Lord Edward's rooms at the Albany to try to convince him to return to Spain with her. Her erstwhile lover, David Griffiths-Jones has been sentenced to death by the government for the apparent murder of Godfrey Tilney,an old Etonian, and a left wing lawyer who had worked with Verity's father. Even though Verity, a fervent communist, disapproves of titled classes, she knows that Ned is the only one who could possibly get the foreign office to intervene and get a stay of execution for David. Basil Thoroughgood agrees to talk to the Spanish Government if Lord Corinth will try and turn David into a double agent for the British Government against the Communist party. While there, Ned finds out that another old Etonian, Makepeace Hoden, has died in Africa.

Verity and Ned fly to Spain where he meets Tom Sutton, his contact at the Embassy, Ben Belasco, an American writer (and Verity's current lover) who is devastatingly modelled after Hemingway, and several other members of the ex-pat community. He finds evidence that David did not kill Tilney and his execution is stayed. In 1917, Tilney, Hoden, and Stephen Thayer were classmates at Eton, three years ahead of Corinth and in a different "house". Within a few weeks, all three are found dead in suspicous circumstances in different parts of the world.

Edward has had to return to England. His brother, the Duke of Mersham, has fallen and is in a coma due to a head injury. He pokes around and finds out what had happened in 1917. Stephen's son and Ned's nephew are best friends at Eton, and Edward promises the boys he will find the killer.

Roberts has again recreated the world before WW II, this time at that preview to the larger conflict in Spain. He's very careful to show that extremes at either end of the political spectrum are evil. Lord Edward Corinth is a Lord Peter Wimsey for the modern world.

This is a review of the UK Hardcover ISBN: 1841193852 Published by Constable

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2002

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