Hardcastle's Collector: A Police Procedural Set During World War One: 13 (A Hardcastle and Marriott Historical Mystery) - Hardcover

Ison, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 072788557X ISBN 13: 9780727885579

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Detective Inspector Hardcastle ruffles feathers in a sleepy Hampshire village, when he investigates the murder of a local girl

August 1917. The head of the CID at Scotland Yard sends Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle and Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police to a small Hampshire village, to investigate the murder of a local girl.

For once, Hardcastle has plenty of suspects. Was the murderer one of Daisy Salter's many suitors? Was it the shifty individual who left the local pub and disappeared the moment he saw Hardcastle? Or could it have been Daisy's own father?

In an entirely different world from London, Hardcastle is forced to adapt to the slower pace of country life, and he soon finds he is ruffling feathers as he carries out his investigations in his own inimitable fashion.

About this title

Review:

"A meaty plot, plenty of twists, a surprise ending"--Booklist

About the Author:

Graham Ison was in the regular army before joining the Metropolitan Police. During his career in Scotland Yard's Special Branch, he was involved in several famous espionage cases and spent four years at 10 Downing Street as protection officer to the prime minister. He later guarded crowned heads and US presidents during their visits to Britain, and served as second-in-command of the Diplomatic Protection Group. He is an honorary agent of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command.

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 072788557X
• ISBN 13: 9780727885579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192