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词条 The Golden Pebble
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Reviews

  3. Notes

  4. References

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| name = The Golden Pebble
| author = Margot Bennett
| country = UK
| language = English
| genre = Thriller
| published = 1948
| pages = 237
| preceded_by = Away went the Little Fish
| followed_by = The Widow of Bath
}}

The Golden Pebble is a thriller by the Scottish author Margot Bennett, published in 1948.

Plot

Mark Rector is an entomologist who specializes in weevils. His sedate and dull life is unexpectedly disrupted when he travels to a remote village in Cornwall from where his uncle once mysteriously received a piece of gold.[1]

Reviews

The Times Literary Supplement included the book in their issue of 6 December 1947, writing Mrs Bennett's first non detective novel deals with a gold rush in Cornwall- and human nature in the raw.[2]

Notes

  • The book originally cost eight shillings and sixpence.
  • The book, like Bennett's other works, is no longer in print.
  • This was the last instance that Bennett's work was published by Nicholson & Watson. Most of her other works were published by Eyre and Spottiswoode.

References

1. ^Bennett, M. The Golden Pebble. 1948
2. ^https://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/pdf/tls/spokenword6december1947.pdf
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1 : 1948 British novels

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