Book description
After seventeen years, Brenda Thwaites Cryer returns to Parson's Fold
with a shadowy past and the shadowy fortune. Now, she lay dead in
Jackman's Cottage. And the only possible witness-her invalid mother-is
missing. For Inspector Mosley, this case is a radical departure from
locating missing turkeys or thwarting orange thieves. But HQ has no one
else available - no one, but whiz-kid Sergeant Beamish, whose task it
becomes to keep a close eye on unpredictable Mosley. Yet how could
Beamish fulfil his duty when Mosley dispatches him on ridiculous
research missions from a Yorkshire castle, to a prestigious law firm, to
a dentist in Ember Bay - only to discover Mosley poking about on the
scene when he arrives? For Beamish, it is infuriating - until these
haphazard leads net important clues that help quietly ingenious Mosley
bag his very first killer. 'Mosley and Beamish are an appealing odd
couple as cops, both likeable human beings. If this is the beginning of
a new series, may there be more!' Washington Post John Greenwood is
the pseudonym of 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.
