Book description
A tense, cleverly devised game of bluff and double-bluff . . .
Most successful men make enemies but Robert Quarry, a rich and ruthless
industrialist, had more than his share.
Feeling was running high at Quarry’s strike-bound factory in the
Midlands. Threats were commonplace. When his battered body was found in
a wrecked car, everything pointed to the strikers . . .
But one thing puzzled Detective Chief Superintendent Burns - why had
Quarry fixed an alibi for himself on the night he was killed?
‘A tightly written and plotted exercise in deduction, quite absorbing’
Yorkshire Post
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.
