Book description
When the Foreign Editor of London’s
Morning Call
newspaper resigns, his assistant Edgar Jessop seems, at least to
himself, the obvious choice to replace him. Particularly as he has been
passed over for promotion on so many occasions in the past.
Jessop is, therefore, outraged to learn that one of the young, upstart
reporters, Cardew, is to be awarded the position, and Jessop is to be
shipped off to Malaya to report on the recent disturbances: a seeming
punishment for all his years of hard work.
Driven to despair, Jessop hatches a plan to take revenge on the staff
at the Morning Call
. When one of the journalists is poisoned, the whole press-team become
suspects to murder. For no one would suspect shy, retiring Jessop of
this heinous crime, would they? It is up to Chief Inspector Haines to
investigate . . . 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.
