Book description
After taking a serious beating whilst engaged in unofficial
undercover work in the murky streets and taverns of London's 19th
century slums, Constable Tom Churchyard takes himself to Cornwall.
Here, in spite of his injuries, he becomes right-hand man to Amos
Hawke, now a senior Cornish policeman. His knowledge of the London
rogues proves invaluable as Amos seeks to foil a gang of city thieves
whose plan is to plunder the mansions of the Cornish gentry. When a
brutal murder is committed during their investigations it proves far
more complex than appears at first glance.
Churchyard and Hawke
is an exciting and insightful novel of the years when the Cornwall
Constabulary was in its infancy in another novel testing the
investigative skills of Amos Hawke.
E. V. Thompson was born in London. After spending nine years in the
Royal Navy, he served as a Vice Squad policeman in Bristol, became an
investigator for British Overseas Airways (during which he was seconded
to the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau), then headed Rhodesia's
Department of Civil Aviation Security Section. while in Rhodesia, he
published over two hundred short stories before moving back to England
to become a full-time award-winning writer. His first novel, Chase the
Wind, the opening book in the Retallick saga, won the Best Historical
novel Award, and since then more than thirty novels have won him
thousands of admirers around the world.
