Book description
It doesn’t take Clare Hunter many years of married life to discover
that her husband, Arnold, is ruthless and unscrupulous. But it is not
until she attempts to break up their unsatisfactory marriage that she
herself becomes victim of his power-complex.
To prevent her leaving him, Arnold resorts to blackmail-of a highly
specialised variety. Ordinary legal methods seem powerless to cope with
the situation and Clare is becoming desperate when she finds an ally in
a former colleague, Hugh Cameron. With little to guide them but their
own ingenuity, these two can only rely on each other. Andrew Garve is
the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and
educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County
School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London
University. He was on the staff of The Economist
for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London
News Chronicle
as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the
BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure
novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized,
televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages.
He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds - which have included
Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the
Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry - and for
never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
