Book description
Inspector Mosley's superiors don't usually court his company: he's
thought to be slow and stupid, and he certainly has a gift for
infuriating those in authority over him. But when a gallows in good
working order is offered for sale in the Hemp Valley Advertiser, and a
woman vanishes in suspicious circumstances from the village of Hempshaw
End, it's even more infuriating that Mosley can't be found anywhere. For
only his intimate knowledge of the district - the hill country of the
Yorkshire-Lancashire border - has a chance of making sense of the
affair. John Greenwood's third Mosley book is as deft, witty and as
unmistakably Northern as the first two. 'Witty, literate and nicely
observed, with good round characters, shrewd detection and not a little
suspense . . . a perfect example of the old English craft of country
comedy. All the proper pleasures of detective fiction are here, plus the
transforming bonus of genuine laughter.' Times Literary Supplement 'In
his quiet, low-key, craggily humorous fashion, Mosley should go far.'
The Times 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.
