Close Quarters Madeline Miller The World's Fair

The World's Fair

Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century

for the young woman she loves

the murders get closer to home

For anyone who hails from a small town

Close Quarters Madeline Miller The World's FairIt has been more than a year since Cannon Whyte fell 103 feet from the cathedral gallery, yet unease still casts a shadow over the peaceful lives of the Close's inhabitants. In an apparently separate incident, head verger Appledown is being persecuted: a spate of anonymous letters and random acts of vandalism imply that he is inefficient and immoral. But then the notes turn threatening, and when Appledown is found dead, Inspector Hazlerigg is called