The Golden Pebble

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

The Golden Pebble
AuthorMargot Bennett
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Published1948
Pages237
Preceded byAway went the Little Fish 
Followed byThe Widow of Bath 

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 most of 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.
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