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Goldsboro Books

Olura

Olura

by Geoffrey Household

Publisher Michael Joseph

Genre: Crime

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    Some light bruising to spine, and chipping to unclipped dust jacket. Several small tears to jacket have been repaired with tape.

About the book

Olura Manoli is a lovely creature, though perhaps a little foolish in her friendship with an African prime minister whom she accompanies to Spain without police protection.

Olura and the politician are followed by an Italian paparazzo hoping to catch glimpses of their indiscretion. But when he turns up dead in the couple's bathroom, it seems there is no one Olura can turn to for help but Philip Ardower, an English don and authority on the Basque language.

His help is certainly needed in the dangerous day to follow, when violent death and police suspicion dog the lovers along the rugged mountains and dark mine shafts of the fierce Biscay coast.

About the Author

Geoffrey Household

Geoffrey Household was a prolific British novelist who specialised in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male.


He served in British Intelligence during World War II in Romania, Greece and the Middle East. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington.


Many of his stories have scenes set in caves, and there is a science-fiction or supernatural element in some, although this is restrained. The typical Household hero was a strong, capable Englishman with a high sense of honour which bound him to a certain course of action. Indiana University holds a collection of Household's manuscripts and correspondence.

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