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Murder at the Star - Who Killed Thomas Thomas? — Who Killed Thomas Thomas?
Murder at the Star - Who Killed Thomas Thomas? — Who Killed Thomas Thomas?
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Ym mhentref glofaol y Garnant yn 1921, caiff siopwr lleol ei lofruddio mewn modd ciaidd, a dygir popeth o'i goffor. Er i nifer gael eu drwgdybio o'r anfadwaith, fe'u rhyddheir, ac erys achos marwolaeth Thomas Thomas yn ddirgelwch am dros nawdeg mlynedd. Ond mae Steve Adams, gohebydd ar y papur lleol, yn benderfynol o ddatrys y dirgelwch unwaith ac am byth.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
In the mining town of Garnant, south Wales in 1921, a shopkeeper is brutally murdered: stabbed, slashed and battered by his assailant and his safe left empty. A number of suspects are identified but released. Who killed Thomas Thomas? For over ninety years Thomas's death was a mystery, until journalist Steve Adams solves the case in Murder at the Star .
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781722558
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781722558
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Murder at the Star - Who Killed Thomas Thomas? — Who Killed Thomas Thomas?
- Sub Title
- Who Killed Thomas Thomas?
- Awdur / Author
- Adams, Steve
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Out of print
- Availability Status (CY)
- Allan o brint
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2015-12-04
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Size
- 135 × 208 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Straeon Gwir (yn Saesneg) | EN: True Stories (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Steve Adams is the editor at the South Wales Guardian. Originally from Pembrokeshire he was for some years a bookseller in the Cardiff branch of Waterstones before changing careers to journalism.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
In 1921 God-fearing, bible-quoting, partially deaf Thomas Thomas was brutally murdered at the branch of Star Stores he managed in Garnant, South Wales. His body was discovered on the morning of Sunday February 13th, his head smashed, his throat cut and with a stab wound to the stomach. Any of the wounds could have killed Thomas. The store safe was bare: over £126 was missing, but was this more than a horribly botched robbery? Bizarrely, the murderer had Thomas gagged with cheese, and although he had been stabbed in the body his trousers, shirt and waistcoat were intact. This was beyond the local police force and Scotland Yard was called. DI George Nicholls duly arrived from the big city to identify a number of suspects in the town. Some had a potential motive, some the opportunity to commit the crime, but extensive investigations proved inconclusive and Nicholls returned to London with the case unsolved and Garnant apprehensive. So the identity of the killer died with him and the case consigned to history. Until now. The extensive researches of Steve Adams have finally revealed the killer in Murder at the Star, which is a thorough reconstruction of the murder and the subsequent investigation. This is the story of a terrible crime in an almost archetypal Welsh mining town, a crime symbolic of a turning point in early twentieth century Wales as the coal industry declined and recently assembled townships acknowledged their unknown futures and sought new identities.
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