Book description
A chance sighting in a café in Amsterdam gives solicitor Rosa Epton an
unwelcome shock. At a nearby table sits an ex-client who should be
behind bars, having recently been sentenced to five years in prison. So
what is Eddie Ruding doing in Amsterdam a few weeks later?
On her return to England,Rosa makes a few discreet enquiries, only to
draw a blank. But just as she has decided to try to put the matter out
of her mind, a newspaper report shocks her into action. Eddie Ruding has
been found dead, his crumpled body lying at the foot of the walls of
Wandsworth Prison.
Rosa, however, is not the only person on the dead man's trail. Everyone
from inquisitive journalists to MI5 appears to be taking an interest -
and none so much as the dead man's mother, a cockney matriarch with a
score to settle. Michael Underwood (the pseudonym of John Michael
Evelyn) was born in Worthing, Sussex and educated at Christ Church
College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939 and served in the
British army during World War Two. He returned to work in the Department
of Public Prosecutions until his retirement in 1976, and wrote almost 50
crime novels informed by his career in the law. His five series
characters include Sergeant Nick Atwell and lawyer Rosa Epton, of whom
is was said by the Washington Post
that she 'outdoes Perry Mason'.
