Book description
The rural town of St. Botolph's Fen End may have a pervert in their
midst. Did Henry Gower, the very enthusiastic schoolteacher, carry the
demonstrations in his sex education classes just a little too far? So
claim four “innocent” schoolgirls. But the weakest of the four buckles
and confesses to her parents that they made the story up-but why? Was it
boredom, revenge, or just a pure evil in the leader of the group? After
all, she's been seen consulting the town's ancient herbalist, a local
witch of sorts. But when Henry Gower's body is found mangled in a pond,
the unanswered questions grow even more complex. Only Superintendent
Simon Kenworthy, with the help of the sexy but hard-nosed young cop
Polly Parrott, can sort through the slander and find the true murderer.
John Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war
service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring
in 1970 to take up full-time writing. Hilton wrote two books on language
teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer - his works include
the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt
series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series as John Greenwood.
