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Author | Margot Bennett |
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Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Published | 1948 |
Publisher | Nicholson & Watson |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 237 |
Preceded by | Away went the Little Fish |
Followed by | The Widow of Bath |
The Golden Pebble is a thriller by the Scottish author Margot Bennett, published in 1948.
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]
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]