Die A Dry Death
David Eldon
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction, mystery, thriller
Word count: 97,000
Warnings: Swearing
In 1920s colonial Malaya, a guest at Penang’s renowned Eastern and Oriental Hotel goes missing. Searching for him, the hotel’s undermanager and general fixer, Paul Jorgensen, enters a tangled web of deceit, jealousy and violence that stretches across the island from banned secret societies to the highest offices of the ruling class.
In 1920s colonial Malaya, a ship’s officer staying at Penang’s renowned Eastern and Oriental Hotel disappears in mysterious circumstances. Set the unenviable task of finding him, the hotel’s undermanager and general fixer, Paul Jorgensen, is drawn into a tangled web of deceit, jealousy and violence that stretches across the island from banned secret societies to the highest offices of the ruling elite. Just who are the shadowy figures searching for the same missing guest and why is nobody surprised at his disappearance?
The second in a series set in vibrant, cosmopolitan George Town, where east meets west and the ancient collides with the modern, Die A Dry Death features the return of the tenacious war veteran, Jorgensen and the ambitious former valet, Ah Cheng.
David Eldon was born near London and after a business career including stints in Malaysia now lives in Lincolnshire, England. He returned to the captivating city of George Town in Penang, Malaysia to create the characters of Jorgensen and Ah Cheng in his first novel But Speechless Death and to bring them back again in Die A Dry Death.
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