Missing, Presumed Dead (Castle Street Mysteries): An Inspector Bliss Mystery: 1 - Softcover

Hawkins, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888822332 ISBN 13: 9780888822338

Publisher: Dundurn, 2001

Synopsis

Missing Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England, to Hampshire. On what seems to be an open-and-shut case, the police cant find the body. Full description

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Review:

Enjoyable. (New Brunswick Reader)

Satisfyingly complex. (The New Brunswick Reader)

Hawkins does an excellent job of keeping the tension high in the bliss-bomber plot, while weaving a real brainteaser around the murder. (Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK))

Synopsis:

Detective Inspector David Bliss has been transferred from London, England to Hampshire in what appears to his new subordinates and superiors as a move down the career ladder. His first day on the job begins with a murder: Jonathan Dauntsey, son of the Major, willingly confesses to murdering his father. It's an open and shut case, until the investigation stalls when the police can't find the body. D.I. Bliss follows a trail of clues that lead him back in time to the point where the central presumption of the case -- a murdered father -- comes into question. Who did Jonathan Dauntsey murder, if anyone at all? As the mystery of the murder begins to resolve itself, so does the mystery of Bliss's transfer from the big city to a small town.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dundurn
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0888822332
• ISBN 13: 9780888822338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300