To Die Like a Gentleman

By Robert Barnard

Book Overview

Told through diaries and letters, a mystery, set in England in 1942, follows a young governess who is faced with a sinister manservant, a master's tyranny, and a situation fraught with bitter... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312094027
• ISBN13: 9780312094027
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Family gothic, rather than a mystery

Someone is killed in this story; the mystery is not who is the murderer, but how are the survivors going to cope. Sir Richard Hudson, son of a self-made man, seems like a perfect Victorian gentleman with his country estate, his lovely wife and four children. Widely respected by his peers as a fair and liberal man, Hudson is in fact a domestic tyrant dominating his family with subtle, and not so subtle torments. The story is told in a combination of narration, letters, and diary entries from multiple points of view. The family and various members of the household struggle for their futures and control over their own lives and those of others. The murder precipitates a crisis. The resolution, given briefly in an epilogue, is sudden and startling.