Book description
When Edward Latimer is accused by a pretty girl of assaulting her in a
train, and two unimpeachable witnesses say they saw him do it, he’s in
deep water. This is only the beginning of his troubles, for a few days
later the girl’s dead body is found in the lonely nearby saltings and
all the evidence points to Edward as her killer. It takes all the
intelligence of his sons, Quentin and Hugh, and the wit of Hugh’s
fiancée, Cynthia, to produce an alternative theory about the murder-and
an alternative suspect. With persistence and unshakeable faith they
unravel the plot and in a dramatic reconstruction demonstrate the
incredible truth. 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.
