A01=Michael Underwood
Author_Michael Underwood
Category=FF
courtroom drama
crime books set in London
crime fiction
detective story
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murder
mystery
Scotland Yard
Simon Manton series
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The Murder Room
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Product details
- ISBN 9781471907845
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Her scarf had been knotted tightly around her neck and it was obvious she had been killed with great determination ...'
Susan Andrews has been murdered and her body found near a disused airfield. The case is now in the hands of Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton, but Susan's father, a former detective-inspector, decides to investigate himself.
Important questions soon emerge - what part has a philandering salesman with a scratched cheek, or the dreamy undergraduate son of the local gentry played in Susan's final hours? And, how much evidence must you have against a suspect before you can charge them with murder?
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 it was said by the Washington Post that she 'outdoes Perry Mason'.
