Book description
Alan Hunt is ambitious and unpleasant - a caravan salesman with good
looks, youth and charm. He is engaged to be married to Susan, a plain
girl with a beautiful fortune.
Just two weeks before the wedding, Gwenda Nicholls turns up, a pretty
redhead he seduced on holiday in Norway: lovely, trusting - and
pregnant. She threatens Hunt’s new way of life, insisting on marriage,
so he forms a plan to get rid of her - permanently - and knows the
perfect site to hide the body.
“A master of suspense at the top of his form.” Evening News
“Guaranteed to bring gasps at his ingenuity.” Sun
“Distinctly gripping study of a coldly narcissistic salesman-seducer .
. .” Observer
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.
