Book description
Murder and robbery on the high seas ...
When rumours of a jewel raid on a luxury yacht in the English Channel
reach London, journalist Hugh Curtis is on the first train to Falmouth
to investigate the crime. Upon his arrival in the Cornish harbour Hugh
finds he isn't the only one wanting to get the inside scoop. Rival
reporter, the beautiful Mollie Bourne, is also chasing the story.
With several different leads to follow, Mollie and Hugh team together
to try and discover who is responsible for the shooting and what has
happened to the glittering loot from the yacht.
And when Mollie gets one of her famous hunches, Hugh has to keep up
with her in order to get to the bottom of things. But their combined
determination to uncover the truth leads them into deeper trouble than
either of them could ever have imagined . . .
This story of passion, deception and untimely death would truly make a
sensational headline. Paul Somers 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.
Paul Winterton was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
