Queenie's Castle: A tale of murder and intrigue in gang-ridden East London
By (Author) Lena Kennedy
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
9th July 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
208
Width 110mm, Height 176mm, Spine 16mm
140g
Falling asleep on the bus after a hard day's work, Joe finds himself stranded in the East End, disorientated in the heavy fog and innocently embroiled in a violent encounter. The incident ends in murder and Joe is accused - of the real villains there remains not a trace.
But his memory of that fateful night, and a clue to the identity of the murderers, helps him through his time in prison and fuels his desire to uncover the truth. His quest leads him back to the East End and to the Ship and Castle pub, run by the mysterious and formidable Queenie'Lena Kennedy is a natural storyteller ... Dickensian energy, a huge range of vivid characters, and a clear delight in telling us about them' -- Daily Telegraph
Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986.