Book description
Buying a coffee for down-and-out 'Alkie' Albie at Marylebone Station is
Fran Varady's good deed for the day. But when the grateful Albie takes
her into his confidence, Fran suddently finds herself launched on her
second investigation. For Albie, though obviously fond of a drink and
none too familiar with soup and water, is absolutely clear about one
thing - he claims to be the only witness to the violent abduction of a
young girl. Although the police scornfully dismiss Albie's story as
alcoholic hallucinations, Fran is determined to follow it up. And her
suspicions seem to be spot on when she is warned off by her old sparring
partner, Sergeant Parry, and then approached by a boyhood friend of her
late father's, distraught over the kidnapping of his daughter. But this
is only the beginning of Fran's investigation - days later, Alkie Albie
is found dead ... Ann Granger has lived in cities all over the world,
since for many years she worked for the Foreign Office and received
postings to British embassies as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. She is
married, with two sons, and she and her husband, who also worked for the
Foreign Office, are now permanently based in Oxfordshire.
